Multi-AGV transport of a load: state of art and centralized proposal

An automatic guided vehicle is a battery powered fully automated industrial transport system. These vehicles are widely used in the industrial sector to substitute manual forklifts and conveyors. The challenge of using AGVs as transport agents in industrial environments goes through providing them with enough intelligence to develop collaborative tasks. Among these collaborative tasks the multi-AGV transport of one object is differentiated from the multi-object multi-AGV transport. This work presents the state of art of cooperative transport solutions of one object between several AGVs. The theoretical fundaments are revised and several proposals for its resolution are classified and described. Finally, an own proposal of one-object multi-AGV transport with omnidirectional AGVs based on centralized remote control is presented.