1) Self-Guided Vehicle
A Self-Guided Vehicle (SGV) is an autonomous, self-directed robotic delivery system for the movement of product in diverse environments.
An SGV operates independently to navigate around fixed and moving obstructions without the need for an external guide path network or sensors, such as buried wires or mounted magnetic or optical strips.
Instead, an SGV uses on-board sensory inputs and navigational software to dynamically plot a path as the robot moves to each goal or task destination. See also AGV or Automatic Guided Vehicle or AGVS .
2) SGV
A Self-Guided Vehicle (SGV) is an autonomous, self-directed robotic delivery system for the movement of product in diverse environments.
An SGV operates independently to navigate around fixed and moving obstructions without the need for an external guide path network or sensors, such as buried wires or mounted magnetic or optical strips.
Instead, an SGV uses on-board sensory inputs and navigational software to dynamically plot a path as the robot moves to each goal or task destination.
3) Sensor
An electronic device designed to detect a specific phenomenon, such as the presence or absence of a physical object, and used to affect control over a designated process.
4) Photoelectric
A form of sensor that uses light to detect the presence or absence of a physical object. See also Sensor .
5) Zero pressure accumulation conveyor
A type of powered conveyor accumulation. Zero pressure accumulation is that which occurs when the driving force is completely removed form the load. This is usually accomplished by way of sensors in combination with various mechanical means such that when a load is stopped on a sensor, the driving force in the zone behind the stopped load is dropped away. When the next load is driven into the now dead zone, it too will stop, causing a like chain reaction upstream, or until such time that the first stopped load is released and moves on. Discharge from an accumulation point can be either one load at a time or a so-called slug discharge, where a pre-specified number of loads are released at one time.
6) Masked out
The design of an inductive loop sensor so that certain objects are not detected.
7) Package detection
The use of sensors to identify the presence of an object typically to actuate another device for the process of identification, sorting, sizing, etc.
8) Positioning
The use of sensor arrays to detect the position of an object in the material handling system typically for the purpose of applying a bar code or other identifier to the object.
9) Quality control
The use of sensors to detect the presence of an object's component part, fill level, or dimensional tolerance for the purposes of providing process quality control.
10) Second surface reflection
A problem for polarized retro-reflective sensors that is created by shiny objects wrapped in shiny material. The wrapping material can depolarize the light as it passes through.
11) Shielded
An inductive proximity sensor configuration that allows for the sensor to be embedded in metal. Shielded sensors contain a metal band that surrounds the ferrite core and allows the electromagnetic field to be concentrated to the front of the sensor face.
12) Sizing
The use of sensor arrays to detect the size of an object. The number of sensors in continuous array that detect the object are a surrogate for object size.
13) Skew angle
The angle at which photoelectric sensors are sometimes mounted in retro-reflective applications so as to prevent the reflection of the object itself from triggering the sensor.
14) Target correction factor
Aspects of the target object such as sensing face size and shape that determine the actual sensing distance with respect to inductive proximity sensors.
15) Target of flight
A measurement principle used in electronic distance measuring sensors based on the length of time it takes for a light pulse to travel from transmission to reception back from the target.