About the update of the AGV location

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Ryosuke S asked Aug 23, '21 Ryosuke S commented Aug 24, '21

About the update of the AGV location

We were monitoring the position of AGV as it moves as below. We notice that when we print the location.x value to Output console every 0.01sec, the value doesn't change for 0.02 to 0.03 sec. The agv itself seems to be moving smoothly, but why does this occur?

Is the update interval for the location fixed? Or does it rely on something? If it is fixed, what is the update interval? Also if it is fixed, is there a way to get the location ignoring this interval?

Customer what to link FlexSim to their system, want to retrieve precise position of the AGV in the simulation model. Thank you in advance.

test2.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.6

agv location flexsim 21.0.6 update

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Answer 1 · 2021-08-23T13:57:49Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Aug 23, '21 Ryosuke S commented Aug 24, '21

The location is only updated when the window is redrawn and thus framerate dependant. For example, try running your model while the 3d window is not active (switch to another tab). The location will stay 0.

To circumvent this, call

updatelocations(<InsertObjectHere>)

before reading the location.

test2_1.fsm

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Ryosuke S commented · Aug 24, 2021 at 06:36 AM

@Felix Möhlmann Thank you for your reply! It's clear now.

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