Simulation based experimental design to identify factors affecting performance of AVS/RS

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 175-185

  Ekren, Banu Y ^a,b   Heragu, Sunderesh S ^b   Krishnamurthy, Ananth ^c   Malmborg, Charles J ^d  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicle storage and retrieval system; Design of experiments; Simulation; Unit load storage and retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL RATES; AUTOMATED UNITS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CYCLE TIME; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INPUT/OUTPUT; INTERACTION EFFECT; INVERSE TRANSFORMATIONS; KEY COMPONENT; POINT POLICY; SCHEDULING RULES; SIMULATION UNITS; SIMULATION-BASED; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TEST ANALYSIS; VEHICLE UTILIZATION;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; ELEVATORS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICS; VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

EID: 72049095544     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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