Multi-agent Formula for automated guided vehicles Systems

Automated guided vehicle system (AGVS) is traditionally used in manufacturing andwarehousing. Especially, AGVS has many applications in flexible manufacturing system (FMS)(see, e.g., Ganesharajah, Hall, & Sriskandarajah, 1998; Seo & Egbelu, 1999;Vosniakos & Mamalis, (1990). Agents are event-driven objects that can integrant in automatedmanufacturing environments to control certain tasks. In this paper a set of agents (a multi-agentsystem) is introduced to control an automated manufacturing environment. The studied problemcan be modeled as a job shop where the jobs have to transported between machines by AGVs.This article introduces based on a disjunctive graph to modulate the joint scheduling problem andfor machines and AGVs scheduling. The objective is to minimize the make span. Some casestudies were used to show the effectiveness of simulation in solving these problems

کلیدواژه ها:

Flexible manufacturingSystems ، Simulation ، Problems in variousstages ، SchedulingProblems