A program for dispatching and routing AGVs

Tanya Smith; Sanjiv Sarin

doi:10.1016/0360-8352(92)90094-Z

A program for dispatching and routing AGVs

Tanya Smith
, Sanjiv Sarin

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Eastman Chemical Company
Industrial and systems engineering with North Carolina A&T State University

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This paper describes a program for dispatching and routing of AGVs in real time in a flexible manufacturing environment. The AGVs are assumed to travel on a bidirectional guidepath. Given a set of open jobs, job priorities, their production routings, number of AGVs, AGV travel speeds and their loading/unloading times, the program decides which AGV to dispatch and the path to be followed by the AGV. Continuous monitoring of the system is made possible by a graphical display of AGV movements. The program can also be used to evaluate the design of the AGV system. Some computational results are presented to illustrate this. © 1992.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187-190
Number of pages	4
Journal	Computers and Industrial Engineering
Volume	23
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0360-8352(92)90094-Z
State	Published - Jan 1 1992

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