The supervisory system of the Imperial College Free Ranging Automated guided Vehicle project

Author

Sen, A. ; Wang, C.S. ; Ristic, M. ; Besant, C.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Imperial Coll. of Sci. Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1991

fDate

13-16 Oct 1991

Firstpage

1017

Abstract

The development of the supervisory system of the Imperial College Free Ranging Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) project in a known structured environment is described. AGVs are increasingly being used in industry to transport workpieces between specified locations. The supervisory system is the traffic controller which interfaces the AGV fleet with other activities in the factory. Based on transportation demands, the supervisory system executes the dispatching, scheduling, communicating and monitoring operation of the fleet. The system also performs dynamic rescheduling if unexpected obstacles or conflict situations arise for the selected vehicles

Keywords

automatic guided vehicles; computerised materials handling; AGV fleet; Imperial College Free Ranging Automated guided Vehicle project; communicating; conflict situations; dispatching; dynamic rescheduling; factory; monitoring; obstacles; scheduling; supervisory system; traffic controller; Automatic control; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Dispatching; Educational institutions; Electrical equipment industry; Job shop scheduling; Production facilities; Transportation; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1991. 'Decision Aiding for Complex Systems, Conference Proceedings., 1991 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Charlottesville, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0233-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1991.169821

Filename

169821