Aiming at the problems of low navigation precision and poor trajectory flexibility of the present automated guided vehicle (AGV),a compound navigation method for AGV was proposed based on vision and RFID.RFID was used to read the information of radio frequency card of the AGV site,the visual technology was used to detect the position of landmarks relative to the AGV and the deviation was corrected,so the AGV navigation and positioning were realized;Kalman filter was introduced into visual positioning to improve navigation accuracy and stability of AGV;in the map construction,the landmark pattern was embedded in the radio frequency card to build the grid map,so the flexibility of the trajectory could be ensured.The results show that by using the proposed compound navigation method,a high positioning accuracy can be achieved,the average trajectory error is 5.85 mm and the average angle error is 0.65°,which can meet the practical application requirements.