Impact of zones on throughput and cycle times in warehouses with autonomous vehicles

2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 449-454

  Roy, Debjit ^a   Krishnamurthy, Ananth ^a   Heragu, Sunderesh ^b   Malmborg, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CLASS-SWITCHING; CYCLE TIME; HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS; LOAD/UNLOAD; MATERIAL HANDLING TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-CLASS; QUEUING NETWORK MODEL; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TRAVEL TIME; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WAITING-TIME;

ELEVATORS; MATERIALS HANDLING; VEHICLES; WAREHOUSES;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70449122739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2009.5234102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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