| 摘要 |
<p>A traffic management system for an automatic material handling system (AMHS) (206) which divides time into a series of discrete time periods and analyzes a plurality of move requests that are to be executed within a particular time period (310). The traffic management system (204) receives a plurality of move requests from the AMHS (206) and determines how many move requests are to be executed (308) and selects which move requests will be executed in the next time period (322). The traffic management system prioritizes the selected move requests by analyzing each source node and each destination node listed in the move request in conjunction with other node traffic data (312). The traffic management system (204) analyzes his data to ensure that a move request is not executed if a material transport vehicle (Vn) would be dispatched to a node having a node traffic balance value exceeding a predetermined value and a node traffic density value exceeding a predetermined value (310).</p> |
