OK... let me retry the question.
I'll just walk through the steps I (wrongly) assumed would work.
Create a data table in excel with passenger info (id, flight_time, type, class, qty...), note that the table is sorted by id... not flight_time.
Import this database into anylogic.
Create a population of agents (Passenger/Passengers) from the data table (one/row).
Create a schedule that addresses the Start Column as flight_time and Value column as qty (for this job I'm only sending one passenger at a time therefore qty = 1 for each row).
Set the pedSource to arrive according to schedule and to use the Passenger Agent as the New pedestrian.
So here is where I'm losing it. When I run this model the new Passengers do not have any parameters associated from the data table. The pedestrian id is some weird number (say 3000 or so). I can click on the Passengers icon during run time and scroll through the created agents (all of the parameter data is there and correctly assigned), but I'm not sure how to associate the new Agents in the run-time model with the population of Passengers agents.
Am I missing a step here? I was thinking that if I import a population of agents from a data table and then have each show up at a particular time in the model that I could then do some calculations with regard to each such as ped.exitTime = time() - ped.flightTime - ped.bufferTime.
I'm just not understanding why the table data is not available for use during run-time through ped? Is there another mapping step that must be performed to push the data to the ped agnets?
I'm at an impasse at this point. I hope this question is described more clearly and your feedback is appreciated.
Several things are wrong here.
You do not create agents in a pop first and then try to reuse them in a PedSource. The latter creates agents itself.
You don't seem to create pedestrians but just agents
you are not mapping the data to parameters
Quick guide to help:
create custom agent type "MyPed" . Make sure its "use in flowchart" property is set to "Pedestrian"
add 1 param into "MyPed" for each dbase table column
set your PedSource to "calls of inject()" function for its arrivals
delete your schedule, you cannot get the data you need
USe a DynamicEvent. Include 1 parameter argument for each dbase column. On Startup of main, loop across all dbase entries and create a dynamic event with the current row-data.
in the action of the DynEvent, call myPedSource.inject(1) and then manually fill that ped with the data from the arguments
This is not straightforward, especially the DynEvent stuff. So do more research in the AL help to understand these and how they work, check example models...
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In my model I want to loop through the database which contains multiple columns (see example) by an event. The idea behind it is that I want to create dynamic events based on the rows in the database.
But I've no clue how to iterate through a database in anylogic and also was not able to find an example of a loop with a database.
The dummycode of my problem would look something like this:
For order in orderdatabase:
Create order based on (order.name, order.quantity, order.arrivaltime, order.deliverylocation)
Where order in the loop is every row of the database, and the value on which the creation is based based on the different column values of that specific row.
Can somebody give me a simple example of how to create such a loop for this specific problem.
Thanks in advance.
Use the database query wizard:
put your cursor into a code field
this will allow you to open the database wizard
select what you need (in your case, you want the "iterate over returned rows and do something" option
Click ok
adjust the dummy code to make it do what you want
For details and examples, check the example models and the AnyLogic help, explaining all options in detail.
My model has a collection of trucks, where the Source block provides each truck with a unique ID. I also have a database containing information on the vehicles' movements.
No column has unique values, but together the trip_start_date and vehicle_id should be a unique set. I'm trying to structure a moveTo block such that when a date in the trip_start_time column is reached during the model runtime, then the agent with that vehicle_id as a parameter will move to the lat/long in a certain amount of time.
However, I'm getting an "empty database value result." I'm wondering if this is because it's expecting every model date to have an entry? I considered making a function that's called when a date in the database is encountered, but I was told that the moveTo block should be able to handle this activity. Help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated!
The way you are trying to use the MoveTo block is not correct. It is hard to explain here but I think you need to go through a few tutorials inside help to get a better fundamental understanding.
However, below is a reproducible example of the behavior I think you want to implement, but using agent-based approach instead of a process-centric or discrete event approach.
I have an agent called Vehicle with a ID called vehicle ID.
There is a Dynamic event has all the parameters found in the DB
Then at the start of the model, we generate all the moveTo events found in the Database using the code below.
List<Tuple> rows = selectFrom(db_table)
.where(db_table.vehicle_id.eq(vehicleID))
.list();
for (Tuple row : rows) {
//What is the start time of the movement
double timeToTripBegin = dateToTime(row.get( db_table.trip_begin_time ));
//Lets create a new movement event to trigger the movement int he future
create_MoveToLocation(timeToTripBegin,
row.get( db_table.latitude ),
row.get( db_table.longitude ),
row.get( db_table.trip_duration_h ));
}
This event will then execute the move to when the time arrives
I would like to load my trucks on specific docks like loading truck A on dock 50. After I insert population loaded from database I get the error that it doesn't find my storages and it cant't calculate the space of my palletracks/ docks. Could it be that whenever I insert a population via database that the program ignore the other parameters of the agent like my storage? Before I insert the database, it works fine.
error
populationloadDocks
resourcepool_dockloading
Make sure to load all parameters from the dbase table in the properties of your agent population under "Agent parameter mapping" (visible in your second screenshot).
The AnyLogic help explains more on how this works but you essentially tell your agents which parameters should be filled from which table column.
I would like to create a database to load my trucks at a certain time and on a certain dock. So for example truck A should load on dock 1 at 6 am. The problem is that I don't know how to get the different IDs of my docks. I create a parameter called id but don't know which ID my different docks have which I write into my database.
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agent/population_dock
Create a new dbase table "docks" with an int-column "dock_id". Fill it with as many docks as you want to create and give them an id number.
In your existing table, link the "id" column to that new table "dock_id".
When you create "Dock" agents in your population "loadDocks", you can select "loaded from database". Create 1 agent for each record in table "docks" and map the "dock_id" column to your parameter "Dock.id".
Now each dock knows its id.
Lots of AnyLogic example models use this setup, so check these out as well (search for "database"). And read around in the help, this is documented very well :)
I'm actually working on a PostgreSQL DB structure and I'm having hard time figuring out how to solve a problem.
The DB will be recording data regarding architectural objects.
The main table, "object",have attributes that describe the object with information like type, localization, etc.
One of these attributes is a serial named object_num.
Another table is called "code" which contains a code made of three letters corresponding to the town where the mission is conducted.
Example :
I'm working on an architectural inventory for the city of Paris. The code_name will be PRS and the first entry (aka the first architectural entity : house, bridge, etc) will be associated to object_num 001.
So PRS001 will be a unique identifier referring to this specific architectural entity.
Things going on, I might end up with quite a few entries, for example entry PRS745.
Say this mission isn't finished yet but a new one starts for the city of Bordeaux, where BDX is going to identify the inventory. It would be great that the identifier for the first entry will be BDX001 rather than BDX746 (auto-increment).
Considering this, it will be also nice that, going back to the Paris mission after a few records for the Bordeaux mission (say BDX211), the next value will start back at (PRS)745 rather than (BDX)211.
So, is it possible to reset the value of a serial to 1 when using a new code ?
And is it possible to start back serial increment from the last value of a specific code ?
I guess you can perform this task with constraints and checks, but I'm not really familiar with these and am a bit lost...
Thanks for your help,
Yrkoutsk
You could create separate sequences for each code_name and grab your auo-increment based on the code_name:
CREATE SEQUENCE PRS START 1;
CREATE SEQUENCE BDX START 1;
insert into your_table (object_num, code_name, other_data)
values ( code_name||lpad(nextval(code_name)::char,3,'0')
, code_name, other_data);
You will have to create a new sequence every time you add a new code_name otherwise the db will end up throwing an error when you try accessing the nonexistent sequence.