Your browser does not support JavaScript!
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com
1887

access icon openaccess INTRALOG – intelligent autonomous truck applications in logistics; single and double articulated autonomous rearward docking on DCs

  • Author(s): Rakshith Kusumakar 1 ; Lejo Buning 1 ; Frank Rieck 2 ; Peter Schuur 3 ; Frans Tillema 1
    • View affiliations
  • Source: Volume 12, Issue 9, November 2018, p. 1045 – 1052
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-its.2018.0083 , Print ISSN 1751-956X, Online ISSN 1751-9578
This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Received 29/01/2018, Accepted 24/05/2018, Revised 16/04/2018, Published 16/07/2018

Vehicle automation opens opportunities toward the improvement of people, planet, profit value in applications on distribution centres (DCs). Despite vision and drive for innovation in logistics, the lack of knowledge prevents the application of autonomous applications. Intelligent Truck Applications in Logistics (INTRALOG) contributes to this deficit and generates valuable insights for a future application in public environments. Current operational automated guided truck applications are bound to fixed infrastructure and do neither operate in the public domain nor offer opportunities to do so. Nowadays, in-vehicle intelligent systems are focused on driver support, opening opportunities such as truck platooning. INTRALOG cross-borders on DCs in relatively low-complex traffic environment, bridging the gap between autonomous driving in the public domain. The multi-agent system developed within INTRALOG aligns logistical movements on DCs, controlling single or double articulated container trailers (longer and heavier vehicle) between the public parking area and cross-docks. This study elaborates on the experiments on automated manoeuvring on a DC with single (SAVs) and double articulated vehicles (DAVs). The experiments comply with business requirements, e.g. manoeuvrability, time to dock and positioning accuracy. The research focuses on the effects of these aspects and control strategies of SAVs and DAVs.

Inspec keywords: autonomous aerial vehicles; mobile robots; production engineering computing; goods distribution; logistics; multi-robot systems

Other keywords: double articulated container trailers; double articulated autonomous rearward docking; intelligent truck applications-in-logistics; INTRALOG; DC; single articulated autonomous rearward docking; in-vehicle intelligent systems; autonomous driving; cross-docks; public parking area; driver support; low-complex traffic environment; double articulated vehicles; multiagent system; truck platooning; distribution centres; operational automated guided truck applications; single articulated container trailers; single articulated vehicles; intelligent autonomous truck applications

Subjects: Mobile robots; Robotics; Production engineering computing; Industrial applications of IT; Aerospace control; Goods distribution; Telerobotics

References

    1. 1)
      • 6. Altafani, C., Speranzon, A., Johansson, K.: ‘Hybrid control of a truck and trailer vehicle’. HSCC 2002: Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Stanford, CA, USA, 2002, pp. 21–34.
    2. 2)
      • 2. Chiu, J., Goswami, A.: ‘Driver assist for backing-up a vehicle with a long-wheelbase dual-axle trailer’. AVEC, Seoul, 2012.
    3. 3)
      • 18. Kim, M., Shin, S., Park, J.: ‘Study on vehicle lateral control for backward driving’. 13th Int. Conf. IEEE in Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Xian, China, 2016.
    4. 4)
      • 12. ARUP: ‘Heathrow personal rapid transit system (ARUP – projects)’, 4 April 2016. Available at http://www.arup.com/projects/heathrow_personal_rapid_transit_prt, Date of access : Jan 5th, 2018.
    5. 5)
      • 11. MI: ‘Campus & community – transport’, 4 April 2016. Available at https://www.masdar.ac.ae/campus-community/the-campus/transport, Date of access : Jan 5th, 2018.
    6. 6)
      • 3. Veenhuizen, B., Kural, K., Buning, L.: ‘INTRALOG – intelligent truck applications in logistics’, HAN University of Applied Sciences (HAN) – HAN Automotive Research, Arnhem (NL), 2014.
    7. 7)
      • 8. Salet, M., Aarts, L., Honer, M., et al: ‘Longer and heavier vehicles in the Netherlands: facts, figures and experiences in the period 1995–2010’, Netherlands Ministry of Transport, 2010, p. 1–71.
    8. 8)
      • 13. Schwenker, B., Raffel, T.: Thoughts Megatrends, Roland Berger, 2013.
    9. 9)
      • 22. Wiel, T.V.D.: ‘Low speed vehicle testing and multibody model validation’. Technical Report, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2017.
    10. 10)
      • 20. Hertogh, T.: ‘Automatic docking of articulated vehicles’. Technical Report, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2107.
    11. 11)
      • 21. Isiklar, G.: ‘Simulation of complex articulated commercial vehicles for different driving manoeuvres’. Master thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2007.
    12. 12)
      • 4. Gerrits, B.: ‘Multi-agent system design for automated docking of semitrailers by means of autonomous vehicles’, Universiteit Twente (UT), Enschede, 2016.
    13. 13)
      • 14. Tillema, F., Buning, L., Gerrits, B., et al: ‘ITS 2016 (Glasgow) INTRALOG, intelligent autonomous truck applications in logistics’, HAN Automotive Research, Arnhem, 2016.
    14. 14)
      • 16. Morales, J., Martinez, J., Mandow, A., et al: ‘Steering the last trailer as a virtual tractor for reversing vehicles with passive on-and off-axle hitches’, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2013, 60, (12), pp. 2385–2389.
    15. 15)
      • 17. Morales, J., Martinez, J., Mandow, A., et al: ‘Virtual steering limitations for reversing an articulated vehicle with off-axle passive trailers’. 35th Annual Conf. IEEE in Industrial Electronics (IECON'09), Porto, Portugal, 2009.
    16. 16)
      • 19. Martinez, J., Paz, M., Garcia-Cerezo, A.: ‘Path tracking for mobile robots with a trailer’, IFAC Proc. Volumes, 2002, 35, (1), pp. 2–3.
    17. 17)
      • 7. Kural, K., Besselink, J.P.I., Nijmeijer, H.: ‘Assessment of Dutch longer and heavier vehicles with a performance based approach and its applicability to Europe’. Int. Symp. Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology (HVTT), Stockhholm, 2012.
    18. 18)
      • 15. Buning, L., Gerrits, B., Kural, K., et al: ‘INTRALOG – intelligent autonomous truck applications in logistics; autonomous rearward docking maneuvering on distribution centers’, HAN Automotive Research, Arnhem, 2017.
    19. 19)
      • 23. Spruijt, A., Rieck, F.: ‘INTRALOG – praktijkvoorbeelden & kansen autonoom wegtransport in de haven’, Hogeschool van Rotterdam (HR), Rotterdam, Seminar Transport & Logistics – Ahoy 2016, 2016.
    20. 20)
      • 10. 2GetThere: ‘Automated people mover systems’, 4 April 2016. Available at http://www.2getthere.eu/, Date of access : Jan 5th, 2018.
    21. 21)
      • 5. Gonzalez-Cantos, A., Maza, J., Ollero, A.: ‘Design of a stable backing up fuzzy control of autonomous articulated vehicles for factory automation’. Int. Conf. Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Antibes-Juan les Pins, France, 2001.
    22. 22)
      • 1. Holland.Trade, 2014. Available at http://www.hollandtrade.com/sector-information/logistics/?bstnum=4950, Date of access : Jan 5th, 2018.
    23. 23)
      • 24. Garrido-Jurado, S., Muñoz-Salinas, R., Madrid-Cuevas, F., et al: ‘Automatic generation and detection of highly reliable fiducial markers under occlusion’, Pattern Recognit., 2014, 47, pp. 3–7.
    24. 24)
      • 9. Roh, J., Lee, H., Chung, W.: ‘Control of a car with a trailer using the driver assistance system’. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, 2011.
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-its.2018.0083
Loading

Related content

content/journals/10.1049/iet-its.2018.0083
pub_keyword,iet_inspecKeyword,pub_concept
6
6
Loading
Print this page
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address