Reference
A. N. Tarău, B. De Schutter, and J.
Hellendoorn, "Throughput optimization of automated flats sorting machines,"
Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul,
Korea, pp. 51-56, July 2008.
Abstract
Large letters, journals, magazines, plastic wrapped mail items of A4 size are
called flats. In order to be able to handle the large volumes of flats that
have to be processed state-of-the-art post sorting centers are equipped with
dedicated flats sorting machines. The throughput of a flats sorting machine is
crucial when dealing with a continually increasing number of items to be sorted
in a certain time. But, the throughput is limited by the mechanical
constraints. We propose to optimize the efficiency of this sorting system by
making several design changes and implementing advanced model-based control
methods such as optimal control and model predictive control. In this paper we
determine an event-based model of the flats sorting system. The considered
control methods are compared for several scenarios. Results indicate that using
the proposed approaches the throughput can be increased with up to 52.62%, the
computation of the optimal velocity being performed in real-time.
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@inproceedings{TarDeS:07-031,
author = {Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina N. and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Johannes},
title = {Throughput Optimization of Automated Flats Sorting Machines},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress},
address = {Seoul, Korea},
pages = {51--56},
month = jul,
year = {2008}
}