Communication Quality Measurement with Real Machines of AMR Ad Hoc Network on Optimal Route Movement

Abstract

In this study, we will verify whether the relay node travel route control method is effective in actual experiments. When an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) requires high-throughput wireless LAN communication during its travel, a system has been proposed to configure an ad hoc network that uses other AMRs (hereafter referred to as nodes) for data relay. Optimal routing control methods have already been proposed to enable relay nodes that relay data to communicate at high throughput. The proposed control method uses a computational model with a simple function, and its effectiveness has been demonstrated. However, the issue is to verify the effectiveness in a real communication environment. Therefore, we conducted experiments on actual equipment and compared the calculated results with the experimental results on actual equipment. The difference between the calculated results and the actual environment was limited to 18 points at most. Therefore, we have shown that the proposed path control method is effective.