With the rapid rise of intelligent factory,intelligent logistics and intelligent warehousing,industrial robot plays an increasingly important role in intelligent manufacturing.Automatic guided vehicle is a kind of intelligent guidance equipment with 24 h uninterrupted operation,which can replace the labour to achieve unmanned running during operation process.Research was conducted on the obstacle avoidance system of automatic guided vehicle based on binocular vision.The principle,advantage,hardware configuration,and calibration process of binocular vision were introduced.The overall design of the obstacle avoidance system of automatic guided vehicle based on binocular vision was analyzed,and the future development of binocular vision automatic guided vehicle was prospected.