Distributed Route Choice Control in DCV-Based Baggage Handling Systems

Reference

A. N. Tarău, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Distributed route choice control in DCV-based baggage handling systems," Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 818-824, July 2009.

Abstract

In this paper we develop advanced control methods for routing individual vehicles which ensure automatic transportation of bags in a baggage handling system of an airport. In particular we consider distributed model predictive control and a distributed heuristic control approach. The baggage handling system performs efficiently if all the bags are transported to the corresponding end points within a specific time window, and this makes the process of handling baggage time-critical. The proposed control approaches are effective for the given application. To assess their performance we consider a benchmark case study, in which the methods are compared for several scenarios. Results indicate that the distributed approaches improve the performance of the vehicle-based baggage handling system with up to 20%.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{TarDeS:09-035,
   author    = {Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina N. and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
                Hans},
   title     = {Distributed Route Choice Control in {DCV}-Based Baggage
                Handling Systems},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on
                Control Applications},
   address   = {Saint Petersburg, Russia},
   pages     = {818--824},
   month     = jul,
   year      = {2009}
   }


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