Title :
Analysis of traffic congestion in AGV system
Author :
Sekine, Eiko ; Hamamatsu, Yoshio ; Sekine, Yoshifumi
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Ibaraki Univ., Hitachi, Japan
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825310
