I am quite new with Anylogic.
I am trying to model a simple conveyor system.
I would like my conveyor to accumulate until the conveyed objects touch each other.
I have set the "gap" parameter of the conveyor to zero, but the objects accumulate with a pitch of (apparently) one meter ?
Am I missing something ?
Please have a look to the model:
https://cloud.anylogic.com/model/3af9fc14-8677-4171-9191-52614703bef6?mode=SETTINGS
If you have a custom agent, you can set it to type Material Item (1). You can then set the dimensions at the class level (2), and AnyLogic gives you this nice visual aid to see how big your item is (3). This visual is nice, because then you can draw your shapes for animation purposes to match the size.
This approach would be for components that do not change in size, like pallets or consistent parts in a manufacturing environment. For material items that have varying sizes, like boxes in a DC, I would probably use the source solution Ben suggested.
You can set the size of your agents in several places. Best one for you is likely in the Sourceblock when you create your object agents. Tick the "change dimension" tickbox as below:
In your conveyor, you can override/adjust the length again if you like:
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i have a fork-lifter who takes the item from the truck and stock it in the rectangular node.
The problem is that i want that the fork-lifter stock the agent according to the attractors. Instead, the operator goes in the same point every time. Why?(i did the same with another flowchart and same blocks and there is no problem, maybe a network problem?).
YOu have to manually tell it to which attractor it should go. Attractors are not actual physical spaces (that become "full" if something is stored there). They are just spaces to separate things visually.
In your process blocks, you probably did not specify the attractors correctly or did not define to move to a random attractor. But even in the latter case, you could have things being stored in the same attractor.
Two options:
Either, turn your attractors into actual agents with rectangular nodes, that you setup to be "empty/full" with state charts (faster but harder to design)
Or use the material handling library with its storage system setup, doing this for your (but this is computationally slower)
I have a warehouse model where "Picker" agents move along the Y-axis to reach the front of a "picking slot" agent.
I would like to make it so that upon arrival in front of the picking slot, the Picker agents face the picking slot.
I am aware of the "Set rotation upon arrival" feature of the MoveTo blocks, but I am having trouble making sense out of it. What sort of value should I input here?
Is it possible to dynamically define the rotation according the the agents' relative location to each other? If so, how should I go about it? Some of the slots are on the left of the picker, and others on the right.
Thank you.
Please have a look at the Wholesale Warehouse example in the sample models (help section of AnyLogic). There they use agent.agent_image.setRotation(-PI) and then turn it into initial position with agent_image.setRotation(0) You can use this dynamically and with if conditions in your blocks.
I built up a shopfloor where material flow is realized by Transporters (AGV / AMR) with free space navigation. I am looking for a possibility to observe traffic at certain spots (e.g. work stations, storage areas) or even on the whole shopfloor so I can compare different scenarios of the material flow and supply strategy of the working station with a view on the traffic. I tried out the Density Map but since it observes the whole layout which is quite big the values get too low for the scale quite fast so it isn't performing the way I want it to. Is there a way so set up like a "area density map" so I can just observe a defined rectangle or another functionality which could help me here?
Happy about all ideas! :-)
You can use normal Rectangular Node elements and trigger "on enter" code to count drive-throughs or similar, as below.
Just make sure to set the capacity to infinity so normal traffic flow is not interrupted :)
I am working on an evacuation project for a floor and would like to create a distribution of pedestrians from the pedSource block. These pedestrians will already appear in an area when I run the simulation. I want to obtain a fixed number of pedestrians in one area while the rest is distributed to other areas.
I have made a collection of areas that pedestrians will appear using allLocations (area, area1, area2 and OfficeArea). The event is triggered by an event and using a delay block. The max amount of pedestrians at the given floor is 100
Image of block flowchart
Image of floor layout plan
This is the code I tried where pedestrians would appear in the areas:
allLocations.get(uniform_discr(0, allLocations.size()-1))
I expect a fixed 10 number of pedestrians in the office area and positioned where I set the attractors, but the actual result shows more than 10 number of pedestrians and do not appear at the set attractor.
Image of actual result
Setting an attractor as a target for pedestrians is according to the documentation only working for the blocks pedWait and pedGoTo (I could actually only get it to work with pedWait, not with pedGoTo). Therefore you cannot initialize agents directly onto attractors using the initial location or the jumpTo() function.
You have several options as a workaround:
Extract the x,y coordinates of the attractor, and use the type point(x,y) to define the initial location or the location for the jumpTo()
Instead of using (graphical) attractors consider just defining points by code directly
Use very small individual areas instead of one large area with attractors
Use a pedWait block in your process flow and let your pedestrians 'walk' to their initial positions. Give the model a short time until everybody is on the desired location before starting your evacuation. You can also run the model in super fast mode during this initial phase, so that it will barely be visible.
I have made a basic "quarter-car" simulink model. It is a double mass system with two springs and two dampers. However I want to add speed of the car as a parameter to this model and I do not know how. Block "Step" is the bump size as an input from the road. Screenshot of the model
Thanks
Your quarter car model is in the vertical dimension only. You wish to add the speed of the vehicle which will then add another dimension to your model. This will require some thought. How do you wish to model the input to the model once the horizontal dimension is developed? I would recommend trying something simple like modifying the "Step" block(which I can't seem to find in your model) to create a larger disturbance at high speeds. Then you can build from there, add profiles to describe road artifacts, etc.