Reference
A. Tarău, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Travel time control of
destination coded vehicles in baggage handling systems,"
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Control
Applications, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 293-298, Sept. 2008.
Abstract
The process of handling baggage in an airport is time critical. Currently, the
fastest way to transport the luggage is to use destination coded vehicles
(DCVs). These vehicles transport the bags at high speed on a "mini" railway
network. The typical issues of the baggage handling system are coordination and
synchronization of the processing units, minimization of the baggage travel
time, avoidance of collisions between vehicles, prevention of buffer overflows,
and minimization of the transportation costs. In this paper we determine an
event-based model of the baggage handling system using DCVs and we investigate
the use of centralized control for this system. The proposed control methods
are optimal control and model predictive control. This way the optimal route
and the optimal speed profile of each vehicle are determined. The considered
control methods are compared for several scenarios. Results indicate that
optimal control becomes intractable when a large stream of bags has to be
handled, while model predictive control can still be used to suboptimally solve
the problem.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{TarDeS:08-012,
author = {Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Hans},
title = {Travel Time Control of Destination Coded Vehicles in Baggage
Handling Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on
Control Applications},
address = {San Antonio, Texas},
pages = {293--298},
month = sep,
year = {2008}
}