A Description Logic Model for the Management of Automated Guided Vehicles

Abstract Automated Guided Vehicles systems are considered the most flexible type of material handling systems. These vehicles are equipped with a variety of functions such as guidance and routing systems to traffic management and load transfers. The experience showed that almost all AGV-systems must be customer-designed. This requires an automation system-architecture which allows to distribute the hardware and the functionality as it is required. The aim of this research is to use as an attempt to develop a tool, which allows to design AGV’s system architectures (Layouts) and its associated environments (world models) to deduce the databases from it and to simulate the operation of designed systems.