Analysis and Optimization of the Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems Considering Congestion
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Abstract
With the development of the social economy and the improvement of the consumption concept, a new business model combining offline and online has been promoted. The warehousing system is one of the important links of commodity production and circulation, which involves storage, sorting, and distribution. It has a significant impact on the operation cost and the efficiency of the whole logistics system. The progress of robot technology, the Internet of things, and artificial intelligence technology promotes the automation and intelligence of storage systems. The Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS), which takes the automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) as the way of handling and picking, greatly improves the space utilization, operation efficiency, and flexibility of the system. This paper studies the RMFS with fixed shelves and establishes the performance evaluation model of the picking system considering the AGVs congestion by establishing the queuing network. The effectiveness of the model is verified by simulation, and the optimization of system parameter configuration is further discussed according to the experimental data.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
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Affiliations
School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
Funding
Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation
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