Low-Cost Automated Guided Vehicle for Material Transport
Line-following & magnetic tape AGV with optical collision avoidance lidar and payload lift platform.
Project Overview
Transports raw materials between factory workstations. Follows floor magnetic tape paths, stops automatically when obstacles cross its path, and interface with conveyor stations to offload payloads. ### Practical Student Engineering Solution Fully functional hardware demonstration prototype equipped with dedicated microcontrollers, precision sensors, actuators, and an interactive cloud/mobile telemetry dashboard. ### Key Learning Outcomes - Embedded C / MicroPython firmware architecture and sensor interfacing - IoT telemetry protocols (MQTT / HTTP / BLE / LoRaWAN) - Power regulation, hardware debugging, and PCB design principles - Comprehensive technical documentation aligned with IEEE academic standards
Modern commercial and industrial infrastructure requires automated, real-time sensing and telemetry. Conventional manual monitoring suffers from high latency, human error, and lack of predictive fault visibility for Low-Cost Automated Guided Vehicle for Material Transport.
A turnkey engineering prototype integrating high-precision sensor modules, dedicated microcontroller unit, and cloud telemetry protocols to automate measurement, trigger alert thresholds, and provide remote dashboard control.