Patent 7991521 was granted and assigned to Jervis B. Webb Company on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An automated guided vehicle and a method of controlling an automated guided vehicle which are capable of varying the travel path of the automatic guided vehicle in order to reduce wear patterns created in the floor of the material handling facility. The travel path of the AGV is varied by intentionally applying a deviation from a selected predetermined route along which the AGV is traveling.