A new HW/SW architecture to move from AGVs towards Autonomous Mobile Robots

This paper proposes the basic concepts of a brand new HW/SW architecture, whose development is in progress through an academic/industrial collaboration, aimed at obtaining a mobile agent capable to merge in itself the standard characteristics of the Automated Guided Vehicles and some potentialities of the Autonomous Mobile Robots, with a particular care for safety issues. Its HW/SW features, together with its mechanical characteristics, make it potentially applicable both in industrial and research contexts.

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