期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
卷 57, 期 18, 页码 5821-5841出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2018.1552031
关键词
automated guided vehicle; facility layout; facility planning; robot applications; vehicle routing; warehouse design; warehousing systems
Motivated by recent technological advances in mobile robotics, this paper explores a novel approach for warehouse order picking. In particular, this work considers two types of commercially available mobile robots - one that can grasp items from a shelf (a picker) and another (a transporter) that can quickly deliver all items from the pick list to the packing station. A new vehicle routing problem is defined which seeks to minimise the time to deliver all items from a pick list to the packing station, a problem termed the pick, place, and transport vehicle routing problem. A mixed integer linear programming formulation is developed to answer three related research questions. First, what combination of picker and transport robots is required to obtain performance exceeding traditional human-based picking operations? Second, how should the composition of the robot fleet be altered to affect the greatest performance improvements? Finally, what are the impacts of warehouse layout designs when coordinated mobile robots are deployed? An extensive numerical analysis reveals that, (1) increasing the number of cross aisles decreases system performance; (2) centrally located packing stations improve system performance; and (3) the average distance from each pick location to the packing station and the average distance between pick locations are effective metrics for identifying specific fleet modifications that are likely to yield system improvements.
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