AGV offloading - drive another round if no space

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Nick V2 asked Jul 27, '22 Kavika F answered Jul 27, '22

AGV offloading - drive another round if no space

Hi other flexsim users!

Question on the AGV module.

Context of my model: I have 2 AGVs driving around, I have one order generation point, I have two dropoff points (lane 1 and lane 2).

What I want to achieve: I want to cap the maximum content of lane 1 to '4 boxes'. If lane 1 reaches 4 boxes, the RGV should circle another round until space comes available.

The challenge: normally I do this by reading the content of this queue via "Model.find("Lane1").subnodes.length", and then use a "decide" to point out if there is space or not. However I am struggling where to integrate this into the AGV module.

Any ideas of how to integrate this into the AGV logic module?

AGV Challenge.fsm

Thanks :)

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.3

agv queue conditional decide maximum capacity offloading

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Answer 1 · 2022-07-27T20:40:54Z

Kavika F answered Jul 27, '22

Hey @Nick V2, on the queue you can set the max content to be 4. Then the AGVs won't deliver any more boxes there.

If you want the AGVs to stop driving around after that, then you can add a Process Flow activity to remove the box from the list after a certain amount of time or something similar.

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