AGV Manager | AGV_MANAGER

AGV Manager is a software tool running on Windows/Linux platforms, allowing to describe the plant operation for AGV’s controlled by the Robox inertial guidance system.

Comnunicates with the AGVs through:
- radio modem via serial link
- wireless lan with TCP/IP or UDP protocol

Comunicates with the PLC:
- through RS232 serial link
- through OPC server
- via ethernet with send/receive or fetch/write protocol
- by generically reading/writing files

Communicates with the data base through:
- SQL server
- MySql
- PostgresSQL
- ODBC

It is responsible for the simultaneous movement of many AGVs:
- it automatically handles anticollision and priority algorithms among AGVs
- it calculates the best path to be assigned to each AGV, by respecting the direction of the path and the AGV orientation, as defined in the plant map

It supplies an integrated development environment (x-script) to describe the AGV movement :
- with great flexibility and adaptation to the peculiarities of each plant
- without any need of external compiling tools
- by processing the infos received through the AGVManager native interfaces or by exchanging information through other channels (socket, …)
- it gives the possibility to integrate “plugins” specifically written for an application, to increase the functionality of AGV Manager for each plant

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