In the context of Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing shopfloors are facing the challenges of synchronizing the internal logistics and production operations by making full use the real-time status of typical production objects. A smart automated guided vehicle (AGV) for easing the collaborations between typical workers and robots. The smart AGV system uses state of the art technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless communication standards.
With the recent development of industrial internet of thing (IIoT), the research on intelligent wireless sensor networks featured with large scale, self-organization and random change of topology, has gained considerable attention.