Design of the Operator Tracing Robot for Material Handling

In order to improve the safety and efficiency of operators using material handling equipment, we implemented a two-wheeled robot to verify the autonomous movement technology of the material handling equipment such as forklift, Automated Guided Vehicle(AGV) and crane. The autonomous control system requires a system that measuring the current location and direction of the robot and the operator. We implement the location of each component using the tag recognition technology through the camera. The operator can send the autonomous movement command to the robot through the Human-Machine-Interface(HMI) device, and the location of the operator and the robot can be confirmed through the map information of the HMI device. The robot collects and uses the location and direction values of the robot and the operator in real time trace operator when the operator moves.