Testbed for warehouse automation experiments using mobile AGVs and drones

Abstract

In many industrial application domains, such as industry 4.0, logistics, process automation and personalized services, there is a need to operate in a more efficient and less time consuming way. Efficiency studies often involve simulations as a fundamental step to verify and analyze the performance of novel solutions. However, experimental research offers the possibility to validate innovative ideas on real systems and testbeds. To this end, we created a testbed for warehouse automation experiments with mobile AGVs and drones. This enables research on many different aspects such as indoor localization solutions, sensor fusion algorithms, video recognition, assets scanning, autonomous flight, path planning, drone charging, drone construction and materials.