Robotized and automated warehouse systems: Review and recent developments

K Azadeh, R De Koster, D Roy - Transportation Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Robotic handling systems are increasingly applied in distribution centers. They require little
space, provide flexibility in managing varying demand requirements, and are able to work …

Trends in order picking: a 2007–2022 review of the literature

G Casella, A Volpi, R Montanari, L Tebaldi… - Production & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A literature review on the order picking process in warehouses is presented for
delineating the trends in time of research topics in this field. A total of 269 journal papers …

Joint optimisation of order batching and picker routing in the online retailer's warehouse in China

J Li, R Huang, JB Dai - International Journal of Production …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Order picking is the core of warehouse operations and considerable researches have been
conducted on improving its efficiency. In this paper, we aim at the joint optimisation of order …

Robotized warehouse systems: Developments and research opportunities

K Azadeh, R De Koster, D Roy - ERIM report series research in …, 2017 - repub.eur.nl
Robotized handling systems are increasingly applied in distribution centers. They require
little space, provide flexibility in managing varying demand requirements, and are able to …

The heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with time windows and a limited number of resources

JC Molina, JL Salmeron, I Eguia, J Racero - Engineering Applications of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with time windows and a
limited number of resources (HVRPTW-LR), a practical extension of the classical vehicle …

A cross-entropy method for optimising robotic automated storage and retrieval systems

M Foumani, A Moeini, M Haythorpe… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we consider a robotic automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) where a
Cartesian robot picks and palletises items onto a mixed pallet for any order. This robotic …

Concurrent manual-order-picking warehouse design: a simulation-based design of experiments approach

SA Altarazi, MM Ammouri - International Journal of Production …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The design of manual-order-picking warehouses is a combination of interdependent
decisions with enormous possible varieties in design components. The strong …

Robotic mobile fulfilment systems considering customer classes

Y Gong, M Jin, Z Yuan - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper studies a Robotic Mobile Fulfilment System (RMFS), featured by a number of
robots lifting and transporting movables storage shelves from storage grids to order pickers …

Order batching in an automated warehouse with several vertical lift modules: Optimization and experiments with real data

L Nicolas, F Yannick, H Ramzi - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The vertical lift module is an automated storage and retrieval system widely used in
warehouses. The performance of a warehouse with vertical lift modules is highly correlated …

Automated stereo-garage with multiple cache parking spaces—structure, system and scheduling performance

Z Li, L Miao - Automation in Construction, 2020 - Elsevier
Stereo garage is kind of large capacity parking equipment to alleviate the parking problem.
In order to reduce the construction cost and improve the garage performance, this paper …