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This is an industrial collaborative project based on the joint work with our industrial partner ADM Automation at Gateshead. ADM develops and manufactures the iCart automated guided vehicle (AGV). As part of their innovation and R&D activities, ADM needs to explore potential technologies that can improve the performance of the iCart, reduce costs and expand the operator interface capabilities.

Develping a embedded software to read the line scane cemera, identify the track and control the model car to follow the track at high speed (as high as possible).

In applications like warehouses, ports, and factories, complicated tasks require multiple AGVs to operate independently as well as in cooperation with each other. Felexibility of easy transition between individual and cooperative behavior and scalability of adjusting the number of cooperating AGVs according to the situation are desired. Distributed Cooperative Control (DCC) that automomouasly control and coordinate a fleet of AGVs communicatting with its neighoubrs to complete complicated tasks without a central coordinator provide an cost-effective reliable innovative solution to the flexibility and scalability challenges. Other potential applications for DCC of multiple autonamous systems include space-based interferometers; combat, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems; hazardous material handling; and distributed reconfigurable sensor networks.