AN APPROPRIATE TOOL HOW TO INCREASE THE EFICIENCY OF THEIR APPLICATION IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Abstract

This paper presents the basic information about the mobile robots, their application in auto- mated production systems and about simulation of th eir movement. Nowadays, the application of mobile robots is very frequent and the number of developed robots still grows. They can be found in logistic chains for material handling of flexible manufactur ing systems, firefighting, chemical operations, und er- water technological operations, etc. The paper describes some methods for solving the mo bile robots' na- vigation in an indoor environment (laboratories, fa ctories, corridors of buildings) and explains in de tail the designed solution of global navigation through the potential fields. These potential fields naviga te the mobile robot safely along the trajectory between ob stacles to the goal position.