Analysis of Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval System by Open Queueing Network

被引:9
作者
Heragu, Sunderesh S. [1 ]
Cai, Xiao [1 ]
Krishnamurthy, Ananth [2 ]
Malmborg, Charles J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Louisville, Dept Ind Engn, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Ind & Syst Engn, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Decis Sci & Engn Syst, Troy, NY 12181 USA
来源
2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | 2009年
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D O I
10.1109/COASE.2009.5234100
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
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.
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