FABRICATION OF WORKING MODEL OF PLC BASED AGV FOR SERVING IN HOTEL

Spoorthiraj K N, Shivashankara B S, Sree Rajendra, Sharath H K, VijayKumar G Thile

Abstract: Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are among various advanced material handling techniques that are finding increasing applications today. They can be interfaced to various other production and storage equipments and controlled through an intelligent computer control system. The use of Automated Guided Vehicle is increasing day by day for the material transfer in production lines of modern manufacturing plants. The purpose is to enhance efficiency in material transfer and increase production.PLC controlled and wheel-based, automatic guided vehicles (AGV)are load carriers that travel along the floor of a facility without an onboard operator or driver. Their movement is directed by a combination of software and sensor-based guidance systems. Because they move on a predictable path(line follower) with precisely controlled acceleration and deceleration, and include automatic obstacle detection used for waste management scenario at a hotel premises where the AGV will be used to collect the garbage and used utensils which are at the specific spots and dump it in the required dump sections.

Keywords: AGV, Automation, Material handling, PLC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0707011