Flexible transport system by cooperation of conveyer-loaded AGVs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1144-1150

  Ota, Jun ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a   Inoue, Kousuke ^a   Chiba, Ryousuke ^a   Hirano, Tomokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE; FLEXIBLE MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM; HANDOVER BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVEYING; CONVEYORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; PLANT LAYOUT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033719353     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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