DocumentCode
1661446
Title
Analysis of traffic congestion in AGV system
Author
Sekine, Eiko ; Hamamatsu, Yoshio ; Sekine, Yoshifumi
Author_Institution
Fac. of Eng., Ibaraki Univ., Hitachi, Japan
Volume
2
fYear
1999
fDate
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
492
Abstract
It is important to discuss the behavior of traffic at merging sections in the design of the overall AGV system and in the realization of the system. We deal with a merging section of the automated guided vehicle system under a time limit for merging. Near the merging section, one flow of traffic must form a queue to avoid collision of vehicles. We have analyzed the vehicle behavior at the merging section of the AGV system using the imbedded Markov chain technique. Analytical solutions have been obtained
Keywords
Markov processes; automatic guided vehicles; probability; queueing theory; AGV system; automated guided vehicle system; collision avoidance; imbedded Markov chain technique; merging sections; traffic behaviour; traffic congestion; Assembly; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Manufacturing automation; Merging; Personnel; Production facilities; Systems engineering and theory; Traffic control; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Tokyo
ISSN
1062-922X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5731-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825310
Filename
825310
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