Investigating the Impact of Energy Source Level on the Self-Guided Vehicle System Performances, in the Industry 4.0 Context

Automated industrial vehicles are taking an imposing place by transforming the industrial operations, and contributing to an efficient in-house transportation of goods. They are expected to bring a variety of benefits towards the Industry 4.0 transition. However, Self-Guided Vehicles (SGVs) are batt...

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Published in:Sustainability 2020-10, Vol.12 (20), p.8541
Main Authors: Graba, Massinissa, Kelouwani, Sousso, Zeghmi, Lotfi, Amamou, Ali, Agbossou, Kodjo, Mohammadpour, Mohammad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Durability
Efficiency
Energy
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy sources
Industry 4.0
Internet of Things
Literature reviews
Localization
Magnetic tape
Materials handling
Navigation systems
Planning
Robotics
Sensors
Sustainability
Systems design
Trajectory planning
Vehicles
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Summary:Automated industrial vehicles are taking an imposing place by transforming the industrial operations, and contributing to an efficient in-house transportation of goods. They are expected to bring a variety of benefits towards the Industry 4.0 transition. However, Self-Guided Vehicles (SGVs) are battery-powered, unmanned autonomous vehicles. While the operating durability depends on self-path design, planning energy-efficient paths become crucial. Thus, this paper has no concrete contribution but highlights the lack of energy consideration of SGV-system design in literature by presenting a review of energy-constrained global path planning. Then, an experimental investigation explores the long-term effect of battery level on navigation performance of a single vehicle. This experiment was conducted for several hours, a deviation between the global trajectory and the ground-true path executed by the SGV was observed as the battery depleted. The results show that the mean square error (MSE) increases significantly as the battery’s state-of-charge decreases below a certain value.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su12208541