AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES.

Abstract

In recent years with the increase in labor costs and the desire to slim down work forces in order to make them, as the Government tell us, leaner and more efficient, more companies have been investigating the desirability of automating the movement of goods within and between factories and warehouses. In this paper it is the author's intention to view this automation in two distinct areas. First, horizontal movement and, secondly, the relatively new concept of Automated Narrow Aisle Stackers. With Automated Guided Vehicles the principle method of guidance is inductive control from wire buried in the ground and for this reason a brief description of how this is achieved is discussed.