Simulation support tool for routing of automated guided vehicles

Abstract

Today's vast variety automated industries uses automatic guided vehicles (AGY) to material handling, transportation of work in progress (WIP) and many other purposes. Driverless operation and speed of handling together with the loading capacity make AGYs popularize among industries like newsprint, distribution, warehouse and manufacturing, food and pharmaceutical, apparel and clothing, household appliances. office and computer equipment.// In this report I try to address the automatic guided vehicle simulation in a given bilateral net work avoiding conflicts between AGY s through the shortest distance path in shortest time with the constraints established by the AGY specifications and user de fined dispatching policies. In previous studies emphasis is made only for one or few concerns and it could be collision free routing, shortest distance path, shortest time path, best dispatching policy or anything else. Matching of AGY capacities for demands .consideration of velocity profiles are rarely touched by researchers. because of the consequences in complexity arise with these considerations.// Dynamic approaches in holding data to smart handling of memory resource, extensive implementation of efficient algorithms with lesser time complexity to improve the speed of operation. appropriate scope selection for variables are few of key features used in coding. A complete coding is also provided as a supplementary booklet. In this report, a rational model building for simulation studies is also briefly discussed.