Study on the pickup-dispatching rules for multiple-load AGVs in manufacturing systems

多载自动导引车（Automated Guided Vehicle，简称AGV）是一种可同时运送多个物品的自动导引车，与单载AGV相比具有许多优点，但其控制问题却比单载AGV更为复杂。本项目研究了使系统吞吐量最大化的取货调度规则。实验结果表明，包含前向策略的动态调度对系统的吞吐量是有效的。

Multiple-load AGVs(Automated Guided Vehicle), which deliver a number of items at the same time, have many advantages over their single-load AGVs, but their control problems are more difficult than single-load ones'. In this project, the pickup-dispatching rules which maximize the system's throughput were studied. The experimental results revealed that the dynamic scheduling including forward strategy was effective against the system's throughput.