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Automated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVSs) are material handling devices playing an important role in modern manufacturing. This paper presents a control strategy to avoid deadlock and collisions in AGVSs. A coloured Petri net modelling method allows a simple synthesis of a real-time closed loop control policy managing the path selection and the movement of vehicles in the AGVS. The proposed control scheme manages the AGVS traffic by avoiding deadlocks and undesirable situations (restricted deadlocks), which inevitably evolve to a deadlock in the next future.
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Fanti, M.P. (2002). Deadlock Free Control in Automated Guided Vehicle Systems. In: Ezhilchelvan, P., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Concurrency in Dependable Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3573-4_6
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