Get the AGV stopped/allocated in a control point

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Joaquín MSV asked Apr 12, '24 Joaquín MSV commented Apr 15, '24

Get the AGV stopped/allocated in a control point

I want to implement a process where an operator loads directly items in container transported by an AGV stopped in a CP. To define the station for unload function I would like to know how to get the object that CP has now on it. Something like CP.subnodes[1] (which obviously does not work).

Any idea on how to implement this in an easy and clean way?

Thanks in advance.

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FlexSim 24.0.3

agv controlpoints load unload

Answer 1 · 2024-04-15T10:01:22Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Apr 15, '24 Joaquín MSV commented Apr 15, '24

You can consider pushing the agv to a list and using a process flow to read from that. This will allow you to synchronise the arrival events of item and agv.

As far as the syntax for finding the allocated traveler using FlexScript you need the AGV.AllocatableObject eg.:

Object cp=Model.find("ControlPoint2");
return  cp.as(AGV.AllocatableObject).allocations[1].allocator;  //returns the AGV

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Joaquín MSV commented · Apr 15 at 09:28 PM

Many thanks for the help. I've defined a pointer label in the CP and assigned there the returned value. Then, in the "on deallocate" (the "on exit" was not working properly) trigger I've cleared the label by assigning a 0x0. That way I can check which AGV is there and once gone, reset value to O.

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Answer 2 · 2024-04-13T03:16:16Z

Joerg Vogel answered Apr 13, '24

Work with Flexscript API classes of AGV like AGV.AllocationPoint.

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