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ASRS distance along network egde

devdatta_d — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:12:46 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.1.1 ]

I have a user command which gets executed everytime a package is loaded onto ASRS. When this happens, I want to calculate the distance of ASRS along the network edge. However, as seen below the function is not returning the distance correctly.

File name is Warehouse_getDistance

Re: ASRS distance along network egde

joerg_vogel_HsH — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:31:18 GMT

An ASRS Vehicle doesn’t drive on an Network in warehouse aisles. It performs only Offset travel tasks for load and unload tasks then. It is still connected to a networknode, which is taking part to be a transfer point of load and unload actions.

Perhaps you can evaluate kinematics of such an object to get your desired data.

Re: ASRS distance along network egde

devdatta_d — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:22:32 GMT

Is it possible to measure offset travel?

Re: ASRS distance along network egde

devdatta_d — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:10:55 GMT

I want to maintain a certain fixed distance between ASRS in the aisle picking up from racks. I was thinking I could calculate the distance ASRS has travelled in the aisle and then use that to maintain distance. Is there a way to do this?

Re: ASRS distance along network egde

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:26:21 GMT

Use vectors to find the distance along the path between two netnodes when the traveler is no longer travelling along the edge due to offset travel:

Vec3 p1=Model.find("NN2").as(Object).location;
Vec3 p2=Model.find("NN3").as(Object).location;
Vec3 p12=p2-p1;
Vec3 t=Model.find("Transporter1").as(Object).location;
Vec3 p1t=t-p1;
double distAlong=p12.dot(p1t)/p12.magnitude;
return distAlong;

Re: ASRS distance along network egde

andrew_o2 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:33:21 GMT

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Re: ASRS distance along network egde

Jeanette_Fullmer — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:34:43 GMT

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