Intelligent Automatic Guided Vehicle for Smart Manufacturing Industry

In the vision of “Smart Industry,” the industrial process and control, automation, monitoring and network connectivity are extended to advancements in technology from very simple to the point where anything can connect through Internet of things (IoT). Simplifying, Industry 4.0 is the next industrial revolution, which exists throughout the automatic guided vehicles (AGV), software defined networks (SDN), robotics, IoT and cloud computing. In this paper, integrating the industrial robots with automatic guided vehicle is proposed in order to make autonomous decision-making capabilities. Subsequently, the possible solutions for industrial wireless networks through IIoT are discussed. Finally, this chapter demonstrates the industrial robot equipped with active RFID for effective logistics environment in a real factory scenario.