Development of the Indoor Mobile Robot Navigating by Vision and Magnetic Tags
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- Seki Junya
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Aoyama Hajime
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Ishikawa Kazuyoshi
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Ishimura Saori
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Wadasako Tetsuya
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Adachi Yoshinori
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Satsumi Yuichi
- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
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- Yokota Kazutaka
- Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University
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- Ozaki Koichi
- Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University
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- Yamamoto Sumio
- Utsunomiya University
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- Other Title
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- 視覚によるライン・トレースと磁気タグの併用による走行制御を用いた搬送ロボットの開発
- シカク ニ ヨル ライン トレース ト ジキ タグ ノ ヘイヨウ ニ ヨル ソウコウ セイギョ オ モチイタ ハンソウ ロボット ノ カイハツ
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Abstract
We have developed an autonomous robot carrying heavy product containers, to be used in the medicine factory. In this environment, its workspace is narrow and the robot has to negotiate between existing machines and instruments. It is also necessary for the robot to comply with strict GMP standards defined by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan for medicine production. The paper proposes a new navigation method using both vision and magnetic tags, rather than conventional magnetic rails on the floor. The robot tows product containers on a cart, and transfers them between a packer and a palettizer for wrapping, according to the instruction given by the process controller system via infrared communication. The robot runs on defined paths by detecting either a tape on the ceiling by vision, or magnetic field generated by small magnetic tags buried on the floor. The proposed method can achieve precision equivalent to the conventional method with magnetic tapes, and requires less initial installation costs. Three robots have worked in a medicine factory for more than a year without causing a single interruption in the manufacturing process, achieving improved production efficiency, lowered production costs, with fewer workers attending the production line than before.
Journal
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- Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
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Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan 27 (8), 833-841, 2009
The Robotics Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390001204726451456
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- NII Article ID
- 10026089258
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- NII Book ID
- AN00141189
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- ISSN
- 18847145
- 02891824
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- NDL BIB ID
- 10468249
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
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- Disallowed