A deep reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic to solve order batching problem with mobile robots

B Cheng, L Wang, Q Tan, M Zhou - Applied Intelligence, 2024 - Springer
In e-commerce logistics, it is critical to enhance the efficiency of the order-picking system.
Motivated by applications of automatic logistics, we consider the mobile robot based order …

The single picker routing problem with scattered storage: modeling and evaluation of routing and storage policies

L Lüke, K Heßler, S Irnich - OR Spectrum, 2024 - Springer
Despite ongoing automation efforts, most warehouses are still manually operated using a
person-to-parts collection strategy. This process of collecting items of customer orders from …

Exact Solution of the Single-Picker Routing Problem with Scattered Storage

K Heßler, S Irnich - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present a new modeling approach for the single-picker routing problem with scattered
storage (SPRP-SS) for order picking in warehouses. The SPRP-SS assumes that an article …

Operating policies for robotic cellular warehousing systems

BJ Ma, S Pan, B Zou, YH Kuo, GQ Huang - Transportation Research Part E …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems provide an innovative robot-to-goods
picking approach designed to improve robot transportation efficiency, where robots move to …

[HTML][HTML] Due date-oriented picker routing, an efficient exact solution algorithm, and its application to pick-from-store omnichannel retailing

S Bock, N Boysen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The advent of e-commerce and omnichannel retailing has sparked renewed interest in
picker routing in warehouses. This paper presents two significant methodological advances …

On picking operations in e-commerce warehouses: Insights from the complete-information counterpart

C Lorenz, A Otto, M Gendreau - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.14316, 2024 - arxiv.org
Major players in e-commerce process dynamically incoming orders in real-time and already
use advanced anticipation techniques, like AI, to predict characteristics of future orders …

Synchronous Parallel Heuristics for Solving the Joint Order Batching and Picker Routing Problem

ST Tran, RJ Almeida, C Defryn… - 2024 IEEE Congress …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The joint order batching and picker routing problem is an important problem for improving
warehouse efficiency. The goal is to minimize the total distance travel of picking customer …

[PDF][PDF] The single picker routing problem with scattered storage: Modeling and evaluation of routing and storage policies

L Korbacher, K Heßler, S Irnich - Discussion papers, 2023 - download.uni-mainz.de
Despite ongoing automation efforts, most warehouses are still manually operated using a
person-to-parts collection strategy. This process of collecting items of customer orders from …

Human-aware optimization of integrated order picking decisions in warehousing logistics

T Prunet - 2024 - Springer
This is a summary of the authors PhD thesis supervised by Nabil Absi, Valeria Borodin and
Diego Cattaruzza and defended on January 19, 2024, at the Ecole des Mines de Saint …

Firefly Algorithm Order Batching Problem Based on Local Search Optimization

Y Miao, L Jia, H Yu - Proceedings of the 2024 5th International …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Order processing efficiency determines the stability and efficiency of the whole logistics
system, which is of great significance for warehouse operation management. The order …