TOWARDS A MORE FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

This paper presents the work that is being carried out in the CIM Centre of ISEP, concerning the upgrade of the automatic transportation system. We describe the software and hardware platform that enables the use of the already existent AGV controlling software in a new mobile robot based transportation system. We also present some ideas on the use of Radio Frequency Identification as the basis for the positioning system. Those ideas were developed within the preparation of the ESPRIT project LPS - Exploitation of RF-Identification in Local Positioning Systems.