An Autonomous Strategy Formation in the AGV Transport System.

This paper proposes a system, which manages both efficiency and flexibility in the manufacturing system. It has been considered that a autonomous distributed system is superior to a centralized system in terms of fail-proof, expansion, load dispersion, flexibility, and the possibility of the evolution. However, it is difficult to manage both efficiency and flexibility according to conventional method in a autonomous distributed system. To solve the problem, we propose a method, where the carrier organizes the whole number of the carrier in the system, according to the volume of the task and the complexity of it. Also we evaluate the proposed method of self-organizing behavior by a multi-AGV autonomous system in the quantitative dynamic environment. It is shown that the system exhibits higher efficiency compared with the centralized system by introducing self-organizing in the quantitative dynamic environment.