Survey of research in the design and control of automated guided vehicle systems

IFA Vis - European journal of operational research, 2006 - Elsevier
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used for the internal and external transport of
materials. Traditionally, AGVs were mostly used at manufacturing systems. Currently, AGVs …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Methodologies to Optimize Automated guided vehicle scheduling and routing Problems: A review study

H Fazlollahtabar, M Saidi-Mehrabad - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2015 - Springer
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used as a material handling device in flexible
manufacturing systems. Traditionally, AGVs were mostly used at manufacturing systems, but …

An effective discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for multi-AGVs dispatching problem in a matrix manufacturing workshop

WQ Zou, QK Pan, T Meng, L Gao, YL Wang - Expert Systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a new multiple automatic guided vehicle dispatching problem
(AGVDP) from material handling process in a matrix manufacturing workshop. The problem …

Smart robotic mobile fulfillment system with dynamic conflict-free strategies considering cyber-physical integration

CKM Lee, B Lin, KKH Ng, Y Lv, WC Tai - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
Smart mobile robots are deployed to the warehouse environments to improve the efficiency,
because of its characteristics of high automation and flexibility characteristics. However, the …

An effective iterated greedy algorithm for solving a multi-compartment AGV scheduling problem in a matrix manufacturing workshop

WQ Zou, QK Pan, MF Tasgetiren - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address a multi-compartment automatic guided vehicle scheduling (MC-
AGVS) problem from a matrix manufacturing workshop that has attracted more and more …

Local and random searches for dispatch and conflict-free routing problem of capacitated AGV systems

T Miyamoto, K Inoue - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are an unmanned transport system used for the
horizontal movement of materials. The dispatching and routing problem (DRP) for AGV …

Design and operational issues in AGV-served manufacturing systems

T Ganesharajah, NG Hall, C Sriskandarajah - Annals of operations …, 1998 - Springer
Abstract Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems are already in widespread use and their
importance for material handling is expected to grow rapidly. The advantages that such …

Approach to integrated scheduling problems considering optimal number of automated guided vehicles and conflict-free routing in flexible manufacturing systems

X Lyu, Y Song, C He, Q Lei, W Guo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Usually, machine and automated guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling are studied
simultaneously. However, previous studies often used a fixed number of AGVs or did not …

Current trends in deterministic scheduling

CY Lee, L Lei, M Pinedo - Annals of operations Research, 1997 - Springer
Scheduling is concerned with allocating limited resources to tasks to optimize certain
objective functions. Due to the popularity of the Total Quality Management concept, on-time …

Competitive and cooperative behaviour analysis of connected and autonomous vehicles across unsignalised intersections: A game-theoretic approach

H Wang, Q Meng, S Chen, X Zhang - Transportation research part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
We in this paper investigate navigation strategies of two cross-moving connected and
autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at an unsignalised intersection. As highly intelligent and …