Experimental studies on a local rescheduling procedure for dynamic routing of autonomous decentralized AGV systems

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-165

  Nishi, Tatsushi ^a   Ando, Masakazu ^a   Konishi, Masami ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AGV system; Autonomous distributed system; Experimental studies; Local rescheduling; Parallel computation; Transportation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; TRANSPORTATION;

AGV SYSTEM; AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LOCAL RESCHEDULING; PARALLEL COMPUTATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 29144513777     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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