Public Summary Month 2/2012

In the last two months the experimental phase of the traffic control strategy developed in Task 2 in the arena built during Task 3 has been started. Given the size of the arena, 3 AGVs will be used to emulate realistic traffic situations. Several layouts and the corresponding roadmaps have been designed and the safety regions for the AGVs have been tuned. For each layout a set of missions to be executed by the AGVs on the roadmap has been defined. Several experiments have bee run using three AGVs on various layouts in order to check the presence of some inconsistencies of the traffic manager. The TRAFCON algorithm behaved as expected and a short movie of these experimental results has been uploaded in the Echord website. In the next months, the experimental campaign will be run. The efficiency of the TRAFCON control strategy will be evaluated and compared with the one that can be achieved using the traffic managed currently used by E80.