Reference
A. N. Tarău, B. De Schutter, and J.
Hellendoorn, "Decentralized route choice control of automated baggage handling
systems,"
Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on
Transportation Systems, Redondo Beach, California, pp. 70-75, Sept.
2009.
Abstract
Modern baggage handling processes in airports use destination coded vehicles
(DCVs) to transport the luggage at high speeds. These vehicles transport the
bags on a "mini" railway network. In order optimize the performance of a
DCV-based baggage handling system, the route of each DCV has to be determined.
In this paper we consider an event-based model of this system. For routing the
DCVs through the network we propose decentralized control methods that
independently compute local control actions viz. decentralized model predictive
control (MPC) and decentralized heuristic approaches. The considered control
methods are compared for several scenarios. Results indicate that decentralized
MPC can be used to suboptimally solve the problem. Moreover, the decentralized
heuristic approaches usually give worse results than those obtained when using
decentralized MPC, but on the other hand they require very low computation
time.
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@inproceedings{TarDeS:09-031,
author = {Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina N. and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Johannes},
title = {Decentralized Route Choice Control of Automated Baggage
Handling Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Transportation
Systems},
address = {Redondo Beach, California},
pages = {70--75},
month = sep,
year = {2009}
}