A flexible belt conveying system: self-organizing ofmicro-conveyor cells

A flexible belt conveying system: self-organizing ofmicro-conveyor cells | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article A flexible belt conveying system: self-organizing ofmicro-conveyor cells Yuanjie Fang, Ziqing Wang, Bing Xu, Zhaobiao Rui, Dan Li This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4472877/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Conveyor systems play an important role in material transportation in industries. For the problems of lacking belt conveying system for flexible organization and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) transportation system,this paper proposes a flexible architecture micro-conveyor cells self-organized system into a belt conveying system. This architecture combines the advantages of both AGVs transportation system and belt conveying system well. First, this paper give the definitions of micro-conveyor cell and micro-conveyor self-organization architecture. Then, the path segmentation and secondary programming algorithms of micro-conveyor cell and self-organization are given, and the theorem of path segmentation without secondary programming is proved.Based on the architecture, the mechanical structure of micro-conveyor with 2 levels belt conveyor, which satisfies the definition of micro-conveyor and made into prototype machine further, is designed. Finally, the above algorithms and theorem are verified by MATLAB simulation experiments and the experimental results show its effectiveness. Physical sciences/Engineering Physical sciences/Mathematics and computing Flexible belt conveying system Micro-conveyor cells AGV Self-organizing Path programming Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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