Modeling a stacking yard transportation system

• Main Author: Chua, Calvin Shan Ji.
• Other Authors: Su Rong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55214
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This report presents a 3D real-time-visualization simulation model based on Webots, a professional mobile robot simulator. In this model, a group of cooperative unmanned mobile robots is deployed on an open floor platform and each operation is handled and coordinated individually by a centralized traffic control system. The model and design of the simulation is based on Automated Container Terminal which includes detailed behavior of elements such as the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV), Automated Stacking Crane (ASC), Automated Quay Crane (AQC) and containers. Simulation model in this study is expected to be useful for assessment of each AGV’s low time cost path on the performance of container terminals and, thereby, for decision-making on the implementation of such equipment.