Estimating mean response time and positioning idle vehicles of automated guided vehicle systems in loop layout

✍ Scribed by Kap Hwan Kim; Jae Yeon Kim

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(97)00218-0

✦ Synopsis

An Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS) with a loop guide path is modeled as a discrete-time stationary Markov Chain. We consider the AGVS with an unidlre~onal loop guide patlL It is discussed how to e~imate the mean response time, the utilization, and the cycle time of AGV for a delivery order. A procedure is suggested in order to determine the home location of idle vehicles in a way of minimizing the mean response thne for an arbitra~ delivery order.