Simulator accelerates the design of magnetic guided AGR vehicles
A simulator that lets AGV designers programme, test and fine tune their Automated Guided Vehicles in the comfort of their PC has been introduced by Roboteq. A magnetic track guided AGV can be built with just two Roboteq components: an MGS1600 magnetic guide sensor and any Roboteq Dual Channel motor controller.
The sensor measures the distance to the centre of the track. Using its built-in programming language, the motor controller takes this data and computes the power to apply to the left and right motor needed for the robot to stay on track.
The simulator is very simple to operate. It opens with the image of a mobile robot on a blank screen on which users can draw or import a drawing of the track. A source code editor is available for writing the programme that will be simulated. A robot icon can then be placed anywhere on the track and made to run. The AGV will move according the user programme and uses the Robot’s real physical characteristics, such as wheel base, gear ratio, wheel diameter and sensor distance from the pivot point.
Once the programme has been verified in the simulator, it can be loaded into the Roboteq controller that is on the real AGV.
The simulator is available dree of charge from Roboteq.
Details on how to build Automatic Guided Vehicles using Roboteq sensors and controllers can be found here.
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