Navigating Unstructured Space: Deep Action Learning-Based Obstacle Avoidance System for Indoor Automated Guided Vehicles

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Aryanti Aryanti, Ming-Shyan Wang, Muslikhin Muslikhin

2024 Electronics (Switzerland) Vol. 13 Issue 2 Article Cited by 8 SDG 17SDG 9SDG 16 Quartile

Abstract

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have become prevalent over the last decade. However, numerous challenges remain, including path planning, security, and the capacity to operate safely in unstructured environments. This study proposes an obstacle avoidance system that leverages deep action learning (DAL) to address these challenges and meet the requirements of Industry 4.0 for AGVs, such as speed, accuracy, and robustness. In the proposed approach, the DAL is integrated into an AGV platform to enhance its visual navigation, object recognition, localization, and decision-making capabilities. Then DAL itself was introduced to combine the work of You Only Look Once (YOLOv4), speeded-up robust features (SURF), and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) and AGV control in indoor visual navigation. The DAL system triggers SURF to differentiate two navigation images, and kNN is used to verify visual distance in real time to avoid obstacles on the floor while searching for the home position. The testing findings show that the suggested system is reliable and fits the needs of advanced AGV operations. © 2024 by the authors.

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan 710, Taiwan; Department of Electrical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya, Palembang, 30139, Indonesia; Department of Electronics Engineering Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

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