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Modeling of an AS/RS serviced by rail-guided vehicles with colored Petri nets: a control perspective.

Dotoli, Mariagrazia; Fanti, Maria Pia

In: Proceedings of the second IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC'02), October 6-9, 2002, Hammamet, Tunisia, Volume 3. IEEE Computer Society Press, October 2002.

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.


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