Offset Travel not working for Transporter loading a Rack

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Claire Krupp asked Sep 4, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Dec 19, '23

Offset Travel not working for Transporter loading a Rack

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!

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.1

transporter travel offset

transporter-offsets-load-unload.fsm (192.6 KiB)

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Claire Krupp commented · Sep 05, 2019 at 01:43 PM

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

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Claire Krupp commented · Sep 05, 2019 at 02:32 PM

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 commented · Sep 06, 2019 at 04:10 PM

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

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Answer 1 · 2019-09-05T15:39:06Z

Joerg Vogel answered Sep 5, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Dec 19, '23

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

network-node-useoffsets.fsm (54.9 KiB)

network-node-system.jpg (248.2 KiB)

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Claire Krupp commented · Sep 05, 2019 at 06:49 PM

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 commented · Sep 06, 2019 at 04:12 PM

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

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Joerg Vogel Claire Krupp commented · Sep 06, 2019 at 04:27 PM

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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