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  2. Automated guided vehicle - Wikipedia

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    An automated guided vehicle (AGV), different from an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), is a portable robot that follows along marked long lines or wires on the floor, or uses radio waves, vision cameras, magnets, or lasers for navigation. They are most often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around a large industrial ...

  3. Vehicular automation - Wikipedia

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    An automated guided vehicle or automatic guided vehicle (AGV) is a mobile robot that follows markers or wires in the floor, or uses vision, magnets, or lasers for navigation. They are most often used in industrial applications to move materials around a manufacturing facility or warehouse.

  4. Automated guideway transit - Wikipedia

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    VAL-208 type train in the Lille Metro A Mark II train in Vancouver, Canada.The SkyTrain is the longest driverless transit system in the Americas.. An automated guideway transit (AGT) or automated fixed-guideway transit [1] or automatic guideway transit [2] system is a type of fixed guideway transit infrastructure with a riding or suspension track that supports and physically guides one or more ...

  5. Automated truck loading systems - Wikipedia

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    Automated truck loading systems (ATLS) is an automation system for trucking.They are used in the material handling industry to refer to the automation of loading or unloading trucks and trailers with product either on or without pallets, slip sheets, racks, containers, using several different types of automated guided vehicle systems (AGV) or engineered conveyor belt systems that are ...

  6. History of self-driving cars - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, SAE International, an automotive standardization body, published a classification system with six levels – ranging from fully manual to fully automated systems –, as J3016, Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to On-Road Motor Vehicle Automated Driving Systems. [98] [99] 2015

  7. Personal rapid transit - Wikipedia

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    Personal rapid transit (PRT), also referred to as podcars or guided/railed taxis, is a public transport mode featuring a network of specially built guideways on which ride small automated vehicles that carry few (generally less than 6) passengers per vehicle. PRT is a type of automated guideway transit (AGT), a class of system which also ...

  8. People mover - Wikipedia

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    A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small scale automated guideway transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks. The term was originally applied to three different systems, developed roughly at the same time.

  9. Unmanned ground vehicle - Wikipedia

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    RCA radio controlled car. Dayton, Ohio, 1921. In 1904, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo was developing a radio-based control system he named Telekino.He chose to conduct an initial test in the form of a three-wheeled land vehicle (), which had an effective range of 20 to 30 meters, the first known example of an unmanned ground vehicle.