Background: This review addresses the emerging field of automated packing cells, which
lies at the intersection of robotics and packing problems. Integrating these two fields is …

Order picking is one of the most expensive tasks in warehouses nowadays and at the same
time one of the hardest to automate. Technical progress in automation technologies …

This paper proposes a practical robotic packing system to automate packing heterogeneous
carton boxes into pallets, which is still handled manually in many distribution centers. The …

An excellent e-commerce logistic cycle is based on reducing the delivery time to satisfy
customers, accelerating the distribution chain activities at each delivery station, increasing …

Because of continuous competition in the corporate industrial sector, numerous companies
are always looking for strategies to ensure timely product delivery to survive against their …

Mobile robots are a crucial element of present and future scientific missions to explore the
surfaces of foreign celestial bodies such as Moon and Mars. The deployment of teams of …

The bin packing problem is a well-studied problem in combinatorial optimization. In the
classical bin packing problem, we are given a list of real numbers in (0, 1] and the goal is to …

The pallet loading problem (PLP) is an NP-hard problem and is generally tackled by
attempting to maximize the number of boxes that can be loaded orthogonally on a pallet …

The bin packing problem has been the corner stone of approximation algorithms and has
been extensively studied starting from the early seventies. In the classical bin packing …

Elimination of waste has been the focus of beverage industries in Nigeria and in so many
parts of the world. A lot of tools have been employed in the analysis and reduction of waste …