Design of Wireless Logistic Automated Guided Vehicles Control System with Swarm Intelligence

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A new design of automated guided vehicles control system is presented, which applies wireless sensor network (WSN) communication technology to make vehicles work as mobile robots with distributed sensing ability, meanwhile uses swarm intelligence algorithms to coordinate the vehicles. Compared to the traditonal system, this system is more flexible because that it is an infrastructure-free system with WSN to assist locating and navigating, and it is suitable for the dynamic industrial applications with self-organization network communication and swarm intelligence control.

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