Development of Automatic Guided Mobile Robot Using Magnetic Position Meter

In this paper, an automatic guided mobile robot using a new magnetic position meter is described. In order to measure the lateral position of a mobile robot, a new magnetic position meter is developed. The magnetic position meter can detect the position of a magnetic wire on the center of road. A mobile robot in designed with a sensing system, a steering system and a driving system. The designed mobile robot is tested to verify the performance of automatic guidance.

• Geun-Mo Kim
• Young-Jae Ryoo

• Autonomous vehicle
• magnetic position meter
• steering
• magnet.

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