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Offset Travel not working for Transporter loading a Rack

transporter-offsets-load-unload.fsm

I have a transporter loading parts into a rack. I'm using an AGV network so that I can control traffic using control areas. I want to show offset travel for load/unload but when I pick that option and then save and reset, the offset travel is not happening.

I tried "use navigator for offset travel" but that gives me an exception error.

Later I was trying various options and the offset movement started happening!

Turns out if you save after applying the "travel offsets for load/unload tasks" it does not work, but if you re-apply the same setting and DON"T save, then it works fine!

FlexSim 19.1.1
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Claire Krupp avatar image Claire Krupp commented ·

For a temporary fix - is there a FlexScript command to turn on the offset travel for the transporters On Reset?

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Found it: 

setvarnum(Model.find("Transporter_AGV"), "useoffsets", 1.0);

But it doesn't work if you put it On Reset. Has to be On Start or later.


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Claire Krupp avatar image Claire Krupp commented ·

@Joshua S is this a bug with the AGV network?

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Why don't you build the path system with Network Node objects. You can insert extended connections to let the Taskexecuter resume his travel at a different network node. network-node-useoffsets.fsm


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Claire Krupp avatar image Claire Krupp commented ·

Thanks @Jörg Vogel. I did think about using network nodes, but I did not know how to insert extended connections.

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Claire Krupp avatar image Claire Krupp commented ·

@Jörg Vogel do you know if a similar thing can be done with AGV Control Points?

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Joerg Vogel avatar image Joerg Vogel Claire Krupp commented ·

AGV Module uses travel to objects.There was no intent for an offset travel.

Update: since FlexSim 20.1 offset travel is a feature of AGV Module.

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