A review of recent advances in automated guided vehicle technologies: Integration challenges and research areas for 5G-based smart manufacturing applications

EA Oyekanlu, AC Smith, WP Thomas, G Mulroy… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In industrial environments, over several decades, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and
Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) have served to improve efficiencies of intralogistics and …

The parallel AGV scheduling problem with battery constraints: A new formulation and a matheuristic approach

M Boccia, A Masone, C Sterle, T Murino - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are frequently used in larger systems, known
as AGV-based transportation systems, for the movement of goods and materials from one …

A simulation model for the planning and control of AGVs at automated container terminals

B Gerrits, M Mes, P Schuur - 2018 Winter Simulation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a scalable and flexible agent-based simulation (ABS) model for the
planning and control of AGVs at automated container terminals (ACTs). A comprehensive …

Determining the Probability of Unproductive Manipulations in Inland Intermodal Terminal Operations

M Zajac, T Rožić, D Naletina - Promet-Traffic&Transportation, 2023 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak The paper concerns the method of determining the probability of unproductive
manipulations during operations, maintenance or repairs on an inland intermodal terminal …

Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cargo Operation Strategy in an Inland Container Terminal

M Zając, T Rozic, I Bajor - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The paper discusses the issue of unproductivity during the implementation of operations in
inland container terminals. The authors hypothesize that the two main factors influencing the …

Material distribution and transportation in a norwegian hospital: a case study

GI Fragapane, AB Bertnum, HH Hvolby… - Ifac-papersonline, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Automated Guided Vehicles have shown significant importance in material
transportation and distribution in today's hospitals. The increasing trends of shorter hospital …

A MILP Formulation for an Automated Guided Vehicle Scheduling Problem with Battery Constraints

A Masone, T Murino, C Sterle, M Strazzullo - Advances in Production …, 2021 - Springer
Nowadays, AGVs are frequently used in industries for the internal transportation of goods or
pallets. The aim of an AGV-based internal transportation system is to transfer the right …

Establishment and Implement of Digital Twin Model for an Intelligent Workshop

C Guo, X Li, L Zhao, J Yan - Industrial Engineering and …, 2023 - ebooks.iospress.nl
For multi-variety and small batches production, great challenges have been brought to
production organization and management of workshops. This paper proposes an …

A Recycling Heuristic Capable of Generating Initial Solutions for Use in Vehicle Routing Metaheuristics

J King, J van Vuuren - … Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, 2023 - Springer
Instances of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants are notoriously difficult to
solve. Moreover, when combining characteristics of multiple VRP variants, the underlying …

Scheduling of automated guided vehicles and machines in flexible manufacturing systems: a simulation study

E Kaoud, M Heshmat, MA El-Sharief… - … Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - inderscienceonline.com
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) have widely expanded in industry sectors all over
the world. Scheduling is one of the problems that face the life cycle of FMSs. This paper …