Maximum transportation throughput of automated guided vehicle system by use of models of traffic capacity and traffic capacity consumption

This paper obtains a theoretical value of the maximum transportation throughput of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) System in a logistics center. To know the maximum transportation throughput is important to design the system since we need to know the feasibility of the design. It is proposed that the method which the problem to obtain the maximum transportation throughput is reduced to a linear programming problem with in this paper. This method must enable to obtain the theoretical values of large systems in shorter period of time than previous methods. We modeled that a rail have a traffic capacity, and AGVs consume the traffic capacity when they run or wait for loading or unloading. Then these relationship is used as constraints of a linear programming problem whose objective is to maximize the transportation throughput.