Missions with Buffers

General Questions
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Hello,
I try to use the AGV to collect available boxes from the two stacks and to deliver them to the single stack. The AGV shall function according to this logic:

  1. AGV can carry 4 boxes and collect as many boxes as available from stack A (not waiting at stack A to collect and transport all 4 boxes).
  2. AGV goes next to collect as many boxes as available from stack B (not waiting at stack B to collect and transport all 4 boxes).
  3. AGV transports as many boxes as was available in stacks A/B and delivers all collected boxes to stack C (can be 2 or 3 pcs).
  4. AGV goes to idle/charge location only if battery is low and box is not available in stacks A/B.

I have an issue to adapt a such mission logic and I would appreciate you very much if you can refer me with the attached file.

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With Missions (Buffers).vcmx (1.2 MB)

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VC community, experts, enthusiast.
Any ideas on behalf missions application with buffers?
The topic is of high interest if VC tool can be applied to the real life milk run operations.

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  • In both of your Collect Steps in your Mission, you can activate the “OptionalStep” property, so that the Mobile Robot only drives there if there is a product to get.
  • In the Deliver Step, you need to activate “DeliverAll”, so that the Mobile Robot can collect many products and deliver them all at the same time here.
  • As you have 2 optional Collect steps, if there are no products to collect, you will get this output: “Mission “Mission #1” was cancelled due its execution not spending time.” → To solve this, you can either add a Wait step of 1s at the end of the Mission for example (that’s the “easy” method), or you could create a Trigger to detect when at least one product is in the warehouse A or B, and trigger the Mission when it’s the case.