Control AGV Count

[priyankasgoudar33]

[ 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.

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

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

[jason_lightfoot_adsk]

Or close the AGV inputs.

[priyankasgoudar33]

@Jason Lightfoot can you explain this

[jason_lightfoot_adsk]

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);

to

closeinput(current.outObjects);

[Jeanette_Fullmer]

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[priyankasgoudar33]

@Jason Lightfoot great it works.