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This paper explores the integration of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in warehouse order picking, a crucial and cost-intensive aspect of warehouse operations. The booming AGV industry, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is witnessing…

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) can reduce human errors in traffic accidents, increase road efficiency, and execute various tasks ranging from delivery to smart city surveillance. Reaping these benefits requires CAVs to…

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…

This paper explores the potential benefits and challenges of integrating Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGVs) in industrial settings to improve sustainability and operational efficiency. While EVs offer…

AGVs are driverless robotic vehicles that picks up and delivers materials. How to improve the efficiency while preventing deadlocks is the core issue in designing AGV systems. In this paper, we propose an approach to tackle this problem.The…

The increasing use and implementation of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) for various activities in maritime environments is expected to drive a rise in developments and research on their control. Particularly, the coordination of multiple…

This paper proposes a bi-level optimization framework to coordinate Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) flexible operations in smart independent warehouses, addressing the critical challenge of balancing high-throughput order fulfillment with…

In dynamic autonomous driving environment, Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) technology can supplement vehicle perception and decision making by leveraging models' generative and predictive capabilities, and has the potential…

Autonomous driving technology pledges safety, convenience, and energy efficiency. Challenges include the unknown intentions of other road users: communication between vehicles and with the road infrastructure is a possible approach to…

Automated material handling systems are used in healthcare facilities to optimize material flow, minimize workforce requirements, reduce the risk of contamination, and reduce injuries. This study proposes a framework that integrates data…

The automation of internal logistics and inventory-related tasks is one of the main challenges of modern-day manufacturing corporations since it allows a more effective application of their human resources. Nowadays, Autonomous Mobile…

Accomplishing safe and efficient driving is one of the predominant challenges in the controller design of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). It is often more convenient to address these goals separately and integrate the resulting…

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have a great potential to improve traffic efficiency in mixed traffic systems, which has been demonstrated by multiple numerical simulations and field experiments. However, some fundamental properties…

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to address the safety, mobility and sustainability issues of our current transportation systems. Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), for example, is one promising technology…

The main objective of this paper is to design and develop an automatic vehicle, fully controlled by a computer system. The vehicle designed in the present work can move in a pre-determined path and work automatically without the need of any…

This paper addresses the lateral control of Autonomous & Connected Vehicles (ACVs) convoys during Emergency Lane Change (ELC) maneuvers. These maneuvers are initiated in response to emergency cues from either the front or rear of the…

Aerial Cable Towed Systems (ACTS) are composed of several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) connected to a payload by cables. Compared to towing objects from individual aerial vehicles, an ACTS has significant advantages such as heavier…

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide the most intriguing opportunity to optimize energy consumption and travel time. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature that allow CAVs to coordinate in situations where there…

Fin actuators can be used for for both thrust generation and vectoring. Therefore, fin-driven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can achieve high maneuverability with a smaller number of actuators, but their control is challenging. This…

This paper proposes a distributed guiding-vector-field (DGVF) controller for cross-domain unmanned systems (CDUSs) consisting of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), to achieve coordinated…