Robotic equipment has been playing a central role since the proposal of smart
manufacturing. Since the beginning of the first integration of industrial robots into production …

Numerous path-planning studies have been conducted in past decades due to the
challenges of obtaining optimal solutions. This paper reviews multi-robot path-planning …

This research introduces a path planning method based on the geometric A-star algorithm.
The whole approach is applied to an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) in order to avoid the …

With the development of artificial intelligence, path planning of Autonomous Mobile Robot
(AMR) has been a research hotspot in recent years. This paper proposes the improved A …

FAGV is a kind of heavy equipment in the storage environment. Its path needs to be simple
and smooth and should be able to avoid sudden obstacles in the process of driving …

Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution consisting of the digitalization of processes
facilitating an incremental value chain. Smart Manufacturing (SM) is one of the branches of …

E-commerce, new retail, and other changes have highlighted the requirement of high
efficiency and accuracy in the logistics service. As an important section in logistics and …

This letter presents a new Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) approach
to a Cooperative MultiRobot Task Allocation (CMRTA) problem, where the robots have to …

In this paper we provide an overview of recent theoretical approaches and technologies that
respond to the fundamental challenges of modern factory automation. We classify these …

Emerging vehicular systems with increasing proportions of automated components present
opportunities for optimal control to mitigate congestion and increase efficiency. There has …