Attach Items to AGV at front end

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Arun Kr asked Mar 14, '18 Vinay S answered Jan 22, '24

Attach Items to AGV at front end

Hi,

Need a modeling idea here. How to attach the loaded item to the front end of the AGV and the loaded item have to behave like an attached trailer following the curves of the AGV network. In other words, like a push train. Set location didn't work for me here, maybe it is because the attach as trailer option is overrunning it.agv-help.fsm

Thanks and Regards, @phil.bobo, @Sam Stubbs, @anthony.johnson

Arun KR

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FlexSim 18.0.3

agv module

agv-help.fsm (28.4 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 14, 2018 at 04:35 PM

An stupid approach is to set the agv in the front invisible and verry small and change the shape of the last trailer to look like the agv. The Train behaves in the model like a standard train, only the visual looks different.

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-14T17:58:55Z

Arun Kr answered Mar 14, '18 Arun Kr commented Mar 14, '18

It's working when I changed the trailer attach rule node value to greater than 1. A value of 0 places the item on top of the AGV.

Regards, agv-help.fsm

Arun KR

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agv-help.fsm (28.5 KiB)

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Arun Kr commented · Mar 14, 2018 at 06:07 PM

Would have been easy, if the attach rule node value can be changed from the network properties GUI window.

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Answer 2 · 2024-01-22T09:29:49Z

Vinay S answered Jan 22, '24

For reference for current users.

Now we can use this code to attach trailer ahead.
agv.attachTrailer(trailerObj, 0.1, 0, 0);

If 3rd parameter is 0, the trailer will attach to ahead, if 1 attaches to behind.

Refer this link from documents for more details.

(flexsim.com)https://docs.flexsim.com/en/23.0/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/AGV/AGV.html#Method-attachTrailer

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