Development and implementation of scheduling and routing policies of self guided vehicles in an industrial printing application

• Main Author: Kappagantula Anjaneya Prasad.
• Other Authors: Chan, John Chok You
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Control engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/4482
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The real-time representation of the SGV system and its control system design are presented. Several vehicle-initiated and workstation initiated demand selection rules as well as scheduling policies for the available jobs are proposed. Using a shortest path generation heuristic algorithm, a conflict-...