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Title:

Failure-Handling Strategies For Mobile Robots In Automated Warehouses

Authors:

Thomas Lienert, Ludwig Stigler, Johannes Fottner

Published in:

 

 

(2019). ECMS 2019 Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco, European Council for Modeling and Simulation.

 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2019

 

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

 

33rd International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Caserta, Italy, June 11th – June 14th, 2019

 

 

Citation format:

Thomas Lienert, Ludwig Stigler, Johannes Fottner (2019). Failure-Handling Strategies For Mobile Robots In Automated Warehouses, ECMS 2019 Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2019-0199

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0199

Abstract:

Automated warehouses operated by a fleet of robots not only offer great flexibility, as fleet size can be adjusted easily to throughput requirements, they also provide higher redundancy compared to common solutions for automated storage and retrieval systems. In case a single robot fails, the remaining fleet of robots is able to continue working within the system, so that throughput is only slightly affected.

However, adequate strategies are required for this scenario. In this contribution, we present four different approaches to cope with robot downtimes, which are based on the routing of the robots. These strategies are compared by performing a simulation study in which a robotic mobile fulfilment system is considered.

 

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