An estimate and simulation approach to determining the Automated Guided Vehicle fleet size in FMS

Author

Yifei, Tao ; Junruo, Chen ; Meihong, Liu ; Xianxi, Liu ; Yali, Fu

Author_Institution

Fac. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., KunMing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kunming, China

Volume

9

fYear

2010

fDate

9-11 July 2010

Firstpage

432

Lastpage

435

Abstract

One of the many design and control issues of Automated Guided Vehicles System (AGVS) is the AGV fleet size. This paper presents a new solution method to determining the number of vehicles in the AGVS based on Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). The approach relies on two procedures-estimate and simulation. With estimate procedure, the mathematic method will be used to estimate the AGV fleet size. In the next procedure, the estimate value will be used in the simulation model of AGVS for further study. The reliable number of vehicles can be reached after two procedures. The objective of this paper is to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the process in determining the AGV fleet size.

Keywords

automatic guided vehicles; flexible manufacturing systems; materials handling equipment; mathematical analysis; AGVS; FMS; automated guided vehicle fleet size; flexible manufacturing system; mathematic method; Automated guided vehicles system; Flexible manufacturing system; Number of vehicles; Simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5537-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSIT.2010.5565147

Filename

5565147