Flexible dispatching rules for automated guided vehicles based on a self-adapting fuzzy prioritizing system

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-336

  Tan, K K ^a   Lee, T H ^a   Tang, K Z ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Automated guided vehicles; Dispatching rules; Flexible manufacturing systems; Fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010019694     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.1999.10750612     Document Type: Article

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