Method of controlling operation of automated guided vehicle

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of controlling the operation of an A.G.V. which automatically operates to go round along a predetermined route formed in a factory and travels along a plurality of production lines having different line contacts and adapted to perform parts assembly or packaging. Optimum travel speeds with respect to all the lines are previously stored in the A.G.V. When the A.G.V. enters one of the production lines it is, instructed from the outside to travel constantly at a speed assigned to this production line and previously stored. In this state, operations of the production line are successively performed.