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6.2 Generate a Workspace Map for Your Fleet
The Primary Enterprise Manager appliance saves its job queue status and recovers the
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queue automatically after it restarts.
Automatic recovery of operations might not apply to an operator-initiated emergency power-off
on the Secondary appliance. See: Power On After a Hard Shutdown on page 62.
6.2 Generate a Workspace Map for Your Fleet
Creating and sharing a workspace map for your fleet requires the MobilePlanner software, run-
ning on a user-supplied PC. The Mobile Robot Software Suite User's Guide describes the software
and process for generating the map.
Briefly, the tasks involved are:
Use a single AIV in manual drive mode to Generate a map.
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Upload the generated map to the Enterprise Manager appliance and make it the current
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map.
The map is downloaded automatically to every AIV in the fleet.
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The Enterprise Manager appliance communicates with each AIV individually, rather than
doing a broadcast. In addition to maps, the Enterprise Manager appliance downloads fleet-
common configuration parameters to each AIV.
NOTE: If you are doing a trial with a single AIV, save the data and con-
figuration to your PC, and then download from your PC to the Enterprise Man-
ager appliance when you are confident that it is accurate.
6.3 Managing Queuing
This section describes how to manage AIV job queues.
Queuing and Job Definitions
Job - a single command issued to the Enterprise Manager, consisting of one or more
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related, ordered moves (job segments). Each job has a unique job ID.
Job segment - one discreet move assigned to a AIV. A segment consists of a single goal
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name, and you can define it as either a PICKUP or a DROPOFF job segment. The goals
might have tasks that are assigned to the AIV, which count as part of the job segment.
Each job segment has a unique ID.
Queue - a collection of requested jobs and job segments, stored on the Enterprise Man-
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ager 2100, that are either assigned or waiting to be assigned to AIVs.
Assigned Job - a job segment becomes assigned after the Enterprise Manager has alloc-
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ated an AIV to perform the job. A job segment transitions from Pending to InProgress
after assignment.
Pickup - a job segment that ends at a goal so that a payload is loaded onto the AIV. If
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the first segment of a job is a PICKUP, then the Enterprise Manager 2100 assigns this
job to whichever AIV it decides is most appropriate.
Dropoff - a job segment that ends at a goal so that a payload is removed from the AIV.
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