document: Vehicle travel time models for AGV systems under various dispatching rules The design and evaluation of AGV-based material handling systems are highly complex because of the randomness and the large number of variables involved . Vehicle travel time is a fundamental parameter for solving various flexible manufacturing system -LRB- FMS -RRB- design problems . This article presents stochastic vehicle travel time models for AGV-based material handling systems with emphasis on the empty travel times of vehicles . Various vehicle dispatching rules examined here include the nearest vehicle selection rule and longest idle vehicle selection rule . A simulation experiment is used to evaluate and demonstrate the presented models
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extractive_keyphrases: agv material handling systems vehicle travel time flexible manufacturing system fms vehicle dispatching rules nearest vehicle selection rule longest idle vehicle selection rule
abstractive_keyphrases: automatic guided vehicle