M-G370/M-G365 can be applied to AGV handling robots and the inertial measurement unit (IMU) of AGV carts

    Today, we will introduce the Epson inertial measurement units (IMU) for AGV handling robots and AGV logistics carts: M-G365, M-G370. Generally, material loading, unloading, and handling are frequent and time-consuming operations that occur during the logistics process. In order to reduce costs and improve efficiency, the implementation of automatic handling technology is imperative and therefore receives increasing attention. Among numerous handling technologies, the high efficiency of AGV handling robots and AGV logistics carts makes them a powerful tool for achieving automatic material handling. So how do we choose AGV handling robots or AGV logistics carts? What role does the inertial navigation module (referred to as the inertial navigation module) in the AGV car play for the AGV handling robot?

     AGV handling robots, as highly automated products in logistics equipment, are increasingly being applied in multiple industries such as warehousing, manufacturing, and healthcare. Compared to traditional manual handling methods, AGV handling robots can automatically travel along a predetermined route without the need for manual driving, transporting goods or materials from the starting point to the destination. The automated warehousing industry has replaced the traditional manual driven transportation of goods with AGV logistics carts, improving the working environment conditions of workers, enhancing the level of automated production, effectively liberating labor productivity, reducing labor intensity, and promoting the improvement of personnel quality and management level in enterprises.

    The scheduling control system of AGV handling robots and AGV logistics carts is the key to achieving their automation, which accurately schedules AGVs to ensure that multiple AGVs can operate in an orderly and standardized manner simultaneously. Simply put, the AGV control system needs to address three main issues: where am I? Where am I going? How can I go? To sum up, they are the three main technologies in AGV control systems: navigation, path planning, and guidance control.

      Navigation issues with AGV handling robots and AGV logistics carts. The inertial navigation module (referred to as the inertial navigation module) in AGV vehicles is an autonomous navigation system that does not rely on external information and is not easily disturbed. The inertial navigation module automatically performs integration operations by measuring the acceleration of the carrier in the inertial reference frame, obtaining the instantaneous velocity and position data of the carrier, and transforming it into the navigation coordinate system to obtain information such as velocity, yaw angle, and position in the navigation coordinate system. The advantage of the inertial navigation module (referred to as the inertial navigation module) in AGV vehicles is that, given the initial conditions, the AGV vehicle can determine its current position, direction, and speed without the need for external references. Suitable for precise positioning and orientation in various complex geographical environments and external disturbances, and able to continuously measure changes in position while maintaining dynamic attitude benchmarks. Epson's inertial navigation modules M-G365 and M-G370 can be applied to AGV handling robots and AGV logistics vehicles. M-G365 is a high-performance inertial measurement device with performance comparable to that of fiber optic gyroscopes (FOGs). It has attitude angle output function and supports various applications. The high-speed DSP with extended Kalman filter can provide high-precision real-time attitude angle output (roll angle/pitch angle/yaw angle) at low power consumption, which can be widely used in vehicles such as automobiles, ships, and other industrial products and systems to measure data and control motion. Moreover, the system no longer requires high-speed calculation of dynamic attitude angles, thereby reducing system load and power consumption. The high-precision inertial navigation module M-G365 adopts high-performance sensors, which have the characteristics of better stability, lower noise, wider dynamic range, and excellent dynamic performance (non-linear scaling factor). The newly developed accelerometer of the high-precision inertial navigation module M-G370 has greatly improved the zero bias stability (up to 6 uG), with an initial zero bias error of 2mg (1 σ). Equipped with newly developed gyroscopic sensors, it greatly improves zero bias stability (0.8 °/hour) and is widely used in inertial navigation and fields with high precision requirements for position measurement, such as autonomous driving and unmanned driving. Epson's Inertial Navigation Module (IMU) M-G365 and M-G370 have been applied in AGV handling robots and AGV logistics carts, greatly improving the automation level of the logistics industry.