Truck–drone hybrid routing problem with time-dependent road travel time

Y Wang, Z Wang, X Hu, G Xue, X Guan - Transportation Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Combining trucks and drones in package delivery provides a promising venue for a future
logistics system that is more efficient and sustainable than the existing one. However, how to …

Smart and flexible manufacturing systems using Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and the Internet of Things (IoT)

I Vlachos, RM Pascazzi, M Ntotis… - … Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Technologies such as Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
increasingly disrupt traditional manufacturing and production systems. However, there is a …

An effective population-based iterated greedy algorithm for solving the multi-AGV scheduling problem with unloading safety detection

W Zou, J Zou, H Sang, L Meng, Q Pan - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing prevalence of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), the multi-AGV
scheduling problem has become a hot research topic in recent years. However, little …

A lexicographic optimization-based approach for efficient task allocation in industrial transportation multi-robot systems

A Djenadi, ME Khanouche, B Mendil - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In industrial transportation applications, multi-robot systems (MRS) are assigned to perform
transportation tasks until their batteries are depleted, requiring them to move to battery …

Grid-Map-Based Path Planning and Task Assignment for Multi-Type AGVs in a Distribution Warehouse

Z Jiang, X Zhang, P Wang - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In an intelligent distribution warehouse, latent AGVs are used for horizontal handling, and
forklift AGVs are used for horizontal or vertical handling. Studying the path planning and task …

An effective discrete Jaya algorithm for multi-AGVs scheduling problem with dynamic unloading time

Y Cui, B Jia, H Sang, L Meng, B Zhang, W Zou - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advance of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) technology, the scheduling of
multiple AGVs in a matrix manufacturing workshop has attracted considerable attention …

Dynamically dealing with requests in a stochastic multi-period home healthcare problem with consistency constraints

V Bonomi, JF Côté, R Mansini… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes a Multi-Period Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem in the healthcare
sector. Patients with unknown locations and demands ask for domiciliary care services with …

Optimization of a fleet of reconfigurable robots for logistics warehouses

M Chaikovskaia - 2023 - theses.hal.science
This thesis is interested in the robotization of operations in logistics warehouses, focusing on
transport operations from reception areas to storage areas and vice versa. The transport …

Nondominated Sorting Differential Evolution Algorithm to Solve the Biobjective Multi‐AGV Routing Problem in Hazardous Chemicals Warehouse

L Duan, Y Liu, H Li, KH Park… - Mathematical Problems in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For the multiple automated guided vehicle (multi‐AGV) routing problems in the warehousing
link of logistics, where the optimization objective is to minimize both the number of AGVs …

A fix and optimize method based approximate dynamic programming approach for the strategic fleet sizing and delivery planning problem

D Aghazadeh, K Ertogral - Central European Journal of Operations …, 2024 - Springer
Logistics related costs constitute a major part in total cost of a product in general.
Considering a company that delivers goods to its customers using its owned fleet, fleet …