I need to simulate a warehouse with several autonomous vehicles moving on a given layout with simple priority rules. In my understanding, the problem can easily be tackled with discrete-event simulation (DES) and I would use SimPy for this.
The problem I see is that it seems very hard to me to visualize the actual trajectories and interactions of these vehicles. Of course, I can log all positions of all vehicles in all periods but how can I proceed then to create a visualization?
The dumbest way would be to create a million pictures, but there has to be a better way. Is there any library or tool to visualize movements of objects on a grid by moving symbols before a background?
Another option would be to use an agent-based approach with a software like AnyLogic, but this seems more complicated to me and I would like to apply a DES approach, preferably with open-source software.
I found that the R library gganimate does what I want. I have not found an equivalent for Python though (maybe because there is neither an equivalent to ggplot2 nor animate in Python...)