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Autonomous In-door Vehicles

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This chapter gives an overview to the state-of-art technology of autonomous mobile robots and focuses more specifically on autonomous indoor vehicles (AIVs) for the purpose of being more relevant to the manufacturing and industrial automation applications. Among the various locomotion designs, this chapter only introduces wheeled AIVs as wheeled platforms are predominant in the current commercially available AIVs. Four key research areas of wheeled AIVs, (1) design and modeling, (2) motion control, (3) sensing, (4) navigation, are reviewed in detail. The major AIV suppliers along with their key AIV products are then surveyed. The chapter ends with concluding remarks and a prediction of the trends of future AIV development.

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  1. Mechatronics Group, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 71NanyangDrive, 638075, Singapore, Singapore

    Jun Feng Dong, Sean Efrem Sabastian, Tao Ming Lim & Yuan Ping Li

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Dong, J.F., Sabastian, S.E., Lim, T.M., Li, Y.P. (2015). Autonomous In-door Vehicles. In: Nee, A. (eds) Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4670-4_103

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