This paper approaches the issue of coordination of highly autonomous Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) working on an automated factory. These vehicles are used for goods delivery tasks between di erent points of the production system. The coordination is based on a decentralized architecture where each vehicle broadcasts the information about its state in the working environment, and by combinin...

The locations of dwell points for idle vehicles in an automated guided vehicle (AGV) system determine the response times for pick-up requests and thus affect the performance of automated manufacturing systems. In this study, we address the problem of optimally locating dwell points for multiple AGVs in general guide-path layouts with the objective of minimizing the maximum response time in the ...

A key issue in automated seaport container terminals is the assignment of transportation orders to automated guided vehicles (AGVs). For AGV dispatching two basic types of strategies can be applied, which differ by the length of the look-ahead period and the rescheduling strategy. The on-line dispatching strategy uses myopic dispatching rules, which have been adopted from flexible manufacturing...

In this paper, an efficient extension of network simplex algorithm is presented. In static scheduling problem, where there is no change in situation, the challenge is that the large problems can be solved in a short time. In this paper, the Static Scheduling problem of Automated Guided Vehicles in container terminal is solved by Network Simplex Algorithm (NSA) and NSA+, which extended the stand...

Automated guided vehicles (AGV) or mobile robots (MR) are being used more and in modern factories, logistics, etc. To extend the work-time of robot, kinetic energy recovery systems implemented to store braking lifting energy. In most applications, storage system is a Li-ion battery, which therefore subjected increased stress also oversized. Super-Capacitors can be combination solve this issue. ...

Increasing demand for customized products in the wake of 4th Industrial Revolution is placing ever increasing demands on flexibility manufacturing systems. Furthermore, usage automated guided vehicles (AGV) adds another layer and also complexity to overall production system. The resulting Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP), including coordination AGVs, NP-hard therefore hard optimize....

New transportation systems have always attracted attention of both transportation experts and general public: the first railway in England, first automobile and streetcar in Germany, first airplane in the United States all of these inventions attracted excitement, curiosity, enthusiasm and skepticism. With time, many inventions fulfilled or exceeded expectations: they have been developed into m...