Industry 4.0 technologies embedded in the warehouse management system (WMS) are
needed to improve the automation of material handling activities such as receiving, storing …

It has been almost half a century since the first interest in autonomous robots was shown,
and research is still continuing to improve their ability to make perfectly conscious decisions …

Order picking in warehouses is a labour-and time-intensive logistical process that
significantly impacts the efficiency of supply chains. Although technical progress facilitates …

Globally, e-commerce warehouses have begun implementing robotic mobile fulfillment
systems (RMFS), which can improve order-picking efficiency by using automated guided …

Abstract The use of Digital Twins (DTs) for continuously optimising manufacturing systems
under a constant stream of changes, also known as” online optimisation”, is taken for …

This paper proposes an A* guiding deep Q-network (AG-DQN) algorithm for solving the
pathfinding problem of an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in a robotic mobile fulfillment …

The rising of e-commerce demands an increase in the performance of warehousing
systems, which are being redesigned to deal with a mass volume of demands to be fulfilled …

The item storage assignment problem (ISAP) in a robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS) is
addressed in the paper. Recently, most ISAP studies have concentrated on improving the …

Autonomous robotics play a central role in smart logistics where robots can replace or aid
humans in all kinds of tasks, such as items picking, moving, and storing. In this paper, we …

This new edition textbook continues down the path that the first edition, winner of the 2013
IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award, successfully carved out. The textbook targets …