Robotic mobile fulfillment systems: A survey on recent developments and research opportunities

ÍR da Costa Barros, TP Nascimento - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
With the advancement of the autonomous mobile robots applied to Warehouses and the
creation of the Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System after the market implementation of the Kiva …

Implementing E-commerce from logistic perspective: Literature review and methodological framework

I Zennaro, S Finco, M Calzavara, A Persona - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
E-commerce is always more diffused as a selling channel around the whole world market,
and its importance has increased and continues to increase with the COVID-19 pandemic …

Adaptive task planning for multi-robot smart warehouse

A Bolu, Ö Korçak - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using autonomous mobile robots is now a necessity for today's large e-commerce
warehouses to save time and energy, and to prevent human-based errors. Robotic Mobile …

Discrete event simulation and digital twins: review and challenges for logistics

K Agalianos, ST Ponis, E Aretoulaki, G Plakas… - Procedia …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Logistics 4.0 era, the demand for anticipating asset behaviour and make
decisions in an almost real time fashion has led to the evolution of DES into an integral part …

Intelligent E-commerce logistics platform using hybrid agent based approach

AV Barenji, WM Wang, Z Li… - … Research Part E: Logistics …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a hybrid agent-based approach for the scheduling and synchronization
of e-commerce logistics parks (EcLP). This is accomplished by integrating intelligent …

A* guiding DQN algorithm for automated guided vehicle pathfinding problem of robotic mobile fulfillment systems

L Luo, N Zhao, Y Zhu, Y Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an A* guiding deep Q-network (AG-DQN) algorithm for solving the
pathfinding problem of an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in a robotic mobile fulfillment …

[HTML][HTML] Robot scheduling for pod retrieval in a robotic mobile fulfillment system

A Gharehgozli, N Zaerpour - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to increase the order picking efficiency, e-commerce retailers have started to
implement order picking systems where mobile robots carry inventory pods to pick stations …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing split orders and optimizing operational policies in robotic mobile fulfillment systems

L Xie, N Thieme, R Krenzler, H Li - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
In robotic mobile fulfillment systems, human pickers don't go to the inventory area to search
for and pick the ordered items. Instead, robots carry shelves (called “pods”) containing …

Rack retrieval and repositioning optimization problem in robotic mobile fulfillment systems

Y Zhuang, Y Zhou, E Hassini, Y Yuan, X Hu - Transportation Research Part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Robotic mobile fulfillment systems provide a new solution for e-commerce retailers to fulfill
customers' orders, wherein racks are moved by mobile robots to workstations so pickers can …

Order picking optimization with rack-moving mobile robots and multiple workstations

Y Zhuang, Y Zhou, Y Yuan, X Hu, E Hassini - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study an automated warehousing system, where racks are moved by robots
to multiple workstations so that pickers at each workstation can retrieve the products from the …