Flexible transportation in warehouses
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In recent years, autonomous mobile robots (AMR) have emerged as a means of transportation system in warehouses. The complexity of the transport tasks requires efficient high-level control, i.e. planning and scheduling of the tasks as well as low-level motion control of the robots. Hence, an efficient coordination between robots is needed to achieve flexibility, robustness and scalability of the transportation
system. In this chapter,we present amethodology to achieve coordination in different control layers, namely high-level and low-level coordination. We investigate how the coordination strategies perform in an automated warehouse. We use simulation results to analyse the system performance.We take into account typical performance indicators for a warehouse, such as time to accomplish the transportation tasks and
total cost of the system. In addition to the simulation results, we conduct experiments in a small-scale representation of the warehouse.
system. In this chapter,we present amethodology to achieve coordination in different control layers, namely high-level and low-level coordination. We investigate how the coordination strategies perform in an automated warehouse. We use simulation results to analyse the system performance.We take into account typical performance indicators for a warehouse, such as time to accomplish the transportation tasks and
total cost of the system. In addition to the simulation results, we conduct experiments in a small-scale representation of the warehouse.
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TNO Identifier
954522
ISBN
9780857299680 ; 0857299670 ; 9780857299673
Publisher
Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Source title
Automation in Warehouse Development
Pages
191-207
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