An automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) automatically stores incoming material and retrieves stored parts with no direct human handling. This paper proposes a modular and unified modeling framework for heterogeneous automated storage and retrieval systems, comprising rail guided vehicles and narrow aisle cranes. We employ colored timed Petri nets, representing a concise and computationally efficient tool for modeling the system dynamic behavior, particularly suitable for real time control implementation. Indeed, the model can be utilized in a discrete event simulation to apply control policies in order to solve scheduling problems, as well as to avoid deadlock and collision occurrences.

Modeling of an AS/RS Serviced by Rail-Guided Vehicles with Colored Petri Nets: a Control Perspective / Dotoli, Mariagrazia; Fanti, Maria Pia. - STAMPA. - 3:(2002), pp. 160-165. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE-SMC2002 tenutosi a Hammamet, Tunisia nel October 6-9, 2002) [10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1176029].

Modeling of an AS/RS Serviced by Rail-Guided Vehicles with Colored Petri Nets: a Control Perspective

Dotoli, Mariagrazia;Fanti, Maria Pia
2002-01-01

Abstract

An automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) automatically stores incoming material and retrieves stored parts with no direct human handling. This paper proposes a modular and unified modeling framework for heterogeneous automated storage and retrieval systems, comprising rail guided vehicles and narrow aisle cranes. We employ colored timed Petri nets, representing a concise and computationally efficient tool for modeling the system dynamic behavior, particularly suitable for real time control implementation. Indeed, the model can be utilized in a discrete event simulation to apply control policies in order to solve scheduling problems, as well as to avoid deadlock and collision occurrences.
2002
International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE-SMC2002
0-7803-7437-1
Modeling of an AS/RS Serviced by Rail-Guided Vehicles with Colored Petri Nets: a Control Perspective / Dotoli, Mariagrazia; Fanti, Maria Pia. - STAMPA. - 3:(2002), pp. 160-165. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE-SMC2002 tenutosi a Hammamet, Tunisia nel October 6-9, 2002) [10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1176029].
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