Codesign of Edge Intelligence and Automated Guided Vehicle Control
This addresses industrial automation by enabling AGVs to handle object transport with human preferences, though it appears incremental as it combines existing components.
The paper tackles autonomous transportation in industrial settings by integrating AGV control, edge intelligence, and human input, achieving a technology readiness level (TRL) of 4-5 in demonstration.
This work presents a harmonic design of autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) control, edge intelligence, and human input to enable autonomous transportation in industrial environments. The AGV has the capability to navigate between a source and destinations and pick/place objects. The human input implicitly provides preferences of the destination and exact drop point, which are derived from an artificial intelligence (AI) module at the network edge and shared with the AGV over a wireless network. The demonstration indicates that the proposed integrated design of hardware, software, and AI design achieve a technology readiness level (TRL) of range 4-5