Analysis of autonomous vehicle storage and retrieval system by open queueing network

Author

Heragu, Sunderesh S. ; Cai, Xiao ; Krishnamurthy, Ananth ; Malmborg, Charles J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

22-25 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

455

Lastpage

459

Abstract

Automated vehicle storage/retrieval system (AVS/RS) technology is a relatively new material handling technology. It is a flexible system that is a viable alternative to automated storage/retrieval systems (AS/RS). The manufacturing system performance analyzer (MPA) is an open queuing network (OQN) analyzer based on the parametric decomposition method. This paper models the AVS/RS and uses MPA to analyze the performance of an AVS/RS configuration. Experimental results are provided to show that the OQN methodology can be applied effectively to analyze an AVS/RS when vehicle utilization is between 60% and 85%. MPA is a better choice than simulation to quickly evaluate alternate configurations of the AVS/RS.

Keywords

information retrieval systems; queueing theory; autonomous vehicle storage; flexible system; parametric decomposition method; queueing network; retrieval system; Automotive engineering; Costs; Intelligent vehicles; Material storage; Materials handling; Mobile robots; Performance analysis; Queueing analysis; Remotely operated vehicles; Storage automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Science and Engineering, 2009. CASE 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4578-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4579-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COASE.2009.5234100

Filename

5234100