Review on Optimization Techniques for AGV’s Optimization in Flexible Manufacturing System

Abstract

Production systems have been growing exponentially in size in recent decades. One of the problems in the manufacturing system is that a need of effective and efficient materials transportation between the workstations. Auto-mated guided vehicles (AGV’s) can provide a satisfactory solution to this issue. Because of this, AGV’s is a one of the most important material handling tool used in flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The designing, scheduling and routing of the AGV’s are the key issues for the reason that performance of AVG’s in flexible manufacturing system depends on these parameters. The failure of AGVs may significantly impact the operation and efficiency of the entire system, and it is a critical issue. In this paper the aims to answer How the reliability of individual AGVs in the system assessed?, and How AGVs affects the performance of the whole FMS system?. It was also discussed that optimizing techniques to improve the performance of AGV in FMS. This paper discussed the details studies of approaches and optimization techniques used for optimizing AGV’s in FMS including design and their control.