Title
Distributed pair-wised transportation planning with incidental deliveries for multiple mobile robots
Abstract
Aiming for the practical applications of warehousing logistics and social services, we study the multiple mobile robots cooperative transportation (MRCT) problem in this paper. A group of transportation robots are assigned to accomplish a set of pair-wised transportation tasks, each task has different time window constraints and capacity requirements. We incorporate the auction mechanism and propose an incidental delivery based approach to solve the MRCT problem. The proposed approach is fully distributed and can be extended to fulfill the online transportation planning or replanning requirement in the dynamic environment. Simulation results demonstrate the advanced performance of the proposed MRCT approach in large-scale transportation problems, and experiment results validate the practical applicability of the proposed approach in practical warehousing applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/RCAR.2017.8311859
2017 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
incidental delivery,social services,transportation robots,pair-wised transportation tasks,capacity requirements,MRCT problem,online transportation planning,MRCT approach,large-scale transportation problems,time window constraints,warehousing applications,Distributed pair-wised transportation planning,warehousing logistics,multiple mobile robots cooperative transportation problem,auction mechanism
Resource management,Task analysis,Computer science,Operations research,Robot,Transportation planning,Mobile robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-2036-6
1
0.37
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhe Liu15913.40
Wang H246863.98
Weidong Chen338457.89
Liu YH41540185.05