Autonomously Guided Vehicle on the factory floor (in cooperation with IfM / LRT):
Base vehicle with 3 wheels: CARROBOT K 2 (psb)
- Body-fixed rear axle with two passive wheels,
- single steered front wheel (torque motor), propelled by a conventional drive-brake electro-motor;
- maximum speed: 2 m/s
- vehicle mass: ~ 380 kg
- odometry at each wheel,
- rate gyro around vertical axis (with large drift rate).
Camera with feature extraction and image evaluation by BVV2; PC for navigation and vehicle guidance.
References
Graefe V (1990). The BVV-Family of of Robot Vision Systems. IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control. Istambul, Turkey
Hock C (1991). Landmark Navigation with ATHENE. 5th Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, Pisa, Italy
Hock C, Dickmanns ED (1992). Intelligent Navigation for Autonomous Robots Using Dynamic Vision. XVII-th Congress of the Int. Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Washington, D.C.
Hock C (1994). Wissensbasierte Fahrzeugführung mit Landmarken für autonome Roboter. Dissertation, UniBwM / LRT Kurzfassung