A comparison of the AGV control solution approaches using Petri nets

Author

Hruz, Branislav ; Mrafko, Leo ; Bielko, Viktor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control Syst., Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Bratislava, Slovakia

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2002

Abstract

Different approaches to the solution of the AGV transportation system control are presented in the paper. The first one is based upon the standard Petri nets extended for control. A way of the process control level modeling is shown. It is a basis for the control of the AGV system at the coordination level. An outline of the transportation co-ordination algorithm is described. Another approach is via supervisory control combined with a routing optimization algorithm. Then an approach using colored Petri nets is presented. All approaches are compared.

Keywords

Petri nets; automatic guided vehicles; flexible manufacturing systems; AGV control solution approaches; AGV transportation system control; FMS; colored Petri nets; flexible manufacturing systems; process control level modeling; routing optimization algorithm; supervisory control; transportation coordination algorithm; Automatic control; Buffer storage; Flexible manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Petri nets; Rails; Routing; Switches; Transportation; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2002 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7437-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1176028

Filename

1176028