Abstract
There are numerous prospects for automated unmanned forklifts in the fields of intelligent logistics and intelligent factories. However, existing unmanned forklifts often operate according to offline path planning first followed by path tracking to move materials. This process does not meet the needs of flexible production in intelligent logistics. To solve this problem, we proposed an optimized online motion planner based on the output of the state grid as the original path. Constraints such as vehicle kinematics; dynamics; turning restriction at the end of the path; spatial safety envelope; and the position and orientation at the starting point and the ending point were considered during path optimization, generating a precise and smooth trajectory for industrial forklifts that satisfied non-holonomic vehicle constraints. In addition, a new rapid algorithm for calculating the spatial safety envelope was proposed in this article, which can be used for collision avoidance and as a turning-angle constraint term for path smoothing. Finally, a simulation experiment and real-world tray-insertion task experiment were carried out. The experiments showed that the proposal was effective and accurate via online motion planning and the tracking of automated unmanned forklifts in a complicated environment and that the proposal fully satisfied the needs of industrial navigation accuracy.
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