Configuration of automated guided vehicles
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsDong Wu, Yaodong Ni, Xuan Cao
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media for configuring a plurality of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). In a method, a plurality of folders corresponding to the plurality of AGVs are created at a management system managing the plurality of AGVs. A folder includes at least one configuration file for configuring an AGV. Based on a configuration file in the folder, a further folder of the plurality of folders is updated. One or more configuration files in the updated further folder are transmitted to an AGV corresponding to the further folder. Further, embodiments of present disclosure provide apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media for managing a plurality of AGVs.
Claims12
A method for configuring a plurality of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), comprising:
- creating, at a management system managing the plurality of AGVs, a plurality of folders corresponding to the plurality of AGVs, a first folder of the plurality of folders comprising at least one configuration file for configuring an AGV;
- updating a further folder of the plurality of folders based on a configuration file of the at least one configuration file of the first folder thereby creating an updated further folder of the plurality of folders;
- authenticating access to each folder of the plurality of folders for each corresponding AGV of the plurality of AGVs,
- wherein the access is authenticated by an internet protocol (IP) address corresponding to each of the plurality of AGVs;
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- transmitting one or more configuration files in the updated further folder to an AGV corresponding to the further folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.