Safety and Performance Standard Developments for Automated Guided Vehicles

Published

July 23, 2014

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Roger D. Eastman

Abstract

The American National Standards Institute/Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation (ANSI/ITSDF) B56.5 Safety Standard committee for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) has been considering several changes to improve the standard. Of interest to the committee are bumper force test methods, an exception for where and when the AGV detects obstacles, and whether a human form test piece should be added to the three current test pieces. Beyond the safety standard, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has suggested a new AGV Performance Standard be established through ASTM that would provide AGV users and manufacturers with non-safety test methods to relate measured vehicle performance to required tasks. Both safety standard suggested improvements and performance standard developments are described and/or referenced in this paper including laboratory measurement data and analysis.

Proceedings Title

CLAWAR 2014 - Climbing and Walking Robots

Conference Dates

July 21-23, 2014

Conference Location

Poznan

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

test method, automated guided vehicle (AGV), ANSI/ITSDF B56.5, human form, 3D imaging, safety, performance

Citation

Bostelman, R. , Hong, T. and Eastman, R. (2014), Safety and Performance Standard Developments for Automated Guided Vehicles, CLAWAR 2014 - Climbing and Walking Robots , Poznan, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915310 (Accessed October 20, 2025)