topic Re: Control AGV Count in FlexSim Forum

Control AGV Count

priyankasgoudar33 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 04:56:00 GMT

[ FlexSim 20.0.10 ]

Hi, I want to control number of agv through dispatcher and not through process flow. Whenever I want only two agv running out of 5 I need to control it without disconnecting agv to dispatcher. How can I do it.

Re: Control AGV Count

moehlmann_fe — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:59:09 GMT

I believe the simplest method would be to simply 'stop' the AGVs that are not supposed to be active. In the attached example I do so in the OnReset trigger of the dispatcher, based on the "numActive" label on it.

InactiveAGVs_fm.fsm

Re: Control AGV Count

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:21:57 GMT

Or close the AGV inputs.

Re: Control AGV Count

priyankasgoudar33 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:20:52 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot can you explain this

Re: Control AGV Count

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:30:16 GMT

The dispatcher passes jobs through its output ports to the AGVs' input ports. So you can have a similar effect by just closing those that exceed the number of AGVs by changing this line:

current.outObjects.stop(STATE_STOPPED);

closeinput(current.outObjects);

Re: Control AGV Count

Jeanette_Fullmer — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:22:14 GMT

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Re: Control AGV Count

priyankasgoudar33 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 03:24:23 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot great it works.