Abstract
By the prosperity of Internet circulation, the net mail-order firm must send out a product more quickly. To cope with this, introduction of the Automatic Guided Vehicle is pushed forward in the distribution warehouse of each net mail-order firm. It is called AGV for short. AGV is an automatic conveyance chassis. AGV is given instructions in detecting magnetic tape laid by floor and a magnetic stick, and it can run according to information from floor automatically. It plans the reduction of personnel expenses by automation and speedup of the conveyance or the automation to use this AGV for the transportation of the product in the warehouse. In this study, an image-processing module acquiring the information of the position and the information of the position gap from an image of the two-dimensional bar code acquired is developed.