Determination of vehicle requirements of AGV system based on discrete event simulation and response surface methodology

The determination of AGV vehicle requirements in a manufacturing system has great impact on the performance. This paper first defines requirement as general optimization problem, and secondly develops new method capable effective solving problem. features with combination discrete event simulation (DES), sensitivity analysis, fractional factorial design (FFD) response surface methodology (RSM). Tests comparisons other based methods have shown that proposed combining analytical method, can make full use their respective advantages overcome defects existing methods. It is more practical.