フリートを止める必要なし:AGV群におけるデッドゾーンによる局所的な異常隔離
No Need to Stop the Fleet: Localized Anomaly Isolation via Dead Zones in AGV Fleets
AGV群の異常発生時に全体停止ではなく、異常領域をデッドゾーンとして局所隔離し、影響を受けないロボットの運用を継続させる手法を提案。脱出機能付きデッドゾーン処理では衝突回避と到着遅延の上限を理論的に保証し、実験でスループットのトレードオフを評価した。
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著者: Natalia Ogorelysheva, Falk Howar, Jian-Jia Chen
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) fleets in production and logistics environments rely on a system-wide emergency stop to handle local anomalies such as malfunctions, hazards, or contaminated areas. While safe, this approach halts the entire fleet even when only a small area is affected, causing unnecessary downtime. This paper proposes dead zones --- a formally defined localized isolation approach that serves as an additional fail-operational mechanism for situations where a full system-wide halt is not strictly needed. Rather than shutting down the entire fleet, a dead zone isolates the anomalous area, allowing unaffected robots to continue operating normally. We introduce two operational strategies: basic dead zone handling, in which affected robots enter a dead zone and stop, and dead zone handling with escaping, in which robots that are sufficiently far from a dead zone reroute around it. For escaping on counterclockwise trajectories we prove collision-freedom with a bounded arrival delay for all escaping robots, provided a minimum pairwise separation is kept between robots. Experimental evaluation confirms the theoretical guarantees and characterizes the throughput tradeoffs between all three approaches: full emergency stop, basic dead zone handling, and dead zone handling with escaping.