Hello,
I am working on implementing a working station with a certain station cycle time on top of the Advanced AGV Process Flow. The product line is to use AGV to move, and stay with, product through several stations. So far, I have tried two methods (see the attached fsm and the screenshot): using Way Point and using Process Flow.
- Using Way Points at Control Point 04: I add "Wait for Defined Delay Time" for AGV to stop and wait for 60secs then travel onward. What are potential solutions for the following observed problems?
- AGV battery consumption is suspicious: AGV status is "travel loaded" the whole duration, so the battery should be discharged at 200A as defined; instead it is just ~5A: stopping at station t = 205.64s (SOC 96.351173%) and done with station at t ~= 265.81s (SOC 96.270076%). This is coincidently the travel-empty discharge rate.
- AGV1 unload at the Central DropOff Point instead of going into one of the 4 points in the drop zone.
- After unloading the item, AGV1 make one loop "travel empty," i.e., does not go into loading zone at all, and while empty still stop at Control Point 04 for station cycle time. After this travel-empty loop, AGV1 then load item at load zone as expected.
- I cannot find a way to add trigger to change visual: I want to switch from box to cylinder to emulate product changes after the work is done.
- Using Process Flow at ControlPoint3 by adding a block of "Travel → Delay → Change Visual → Breathe" in Unloading process-flow group as shown. This method seems to work well, and the battery is discharged at "idle" rate which is preferred to other rates. My question is if my current implementation is sufficient for actual deployment on several stations? As I am a new learner and FlexSIM is so robust, I'm afraid my implementation is not actually following the best practice.
Thank you very much.
