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A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses
Joint Authors
Zhou, Luowei
Shi, Yuanyuan
Wang, Jiangliu
Yang, Pei
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-11-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents a new mechanism for the multirobot task allocation problem in intelligent warehouses, where a team of mobile robots are expected to efficiently transport a number of given objects.
We model the system with unknown task cost and the objective is twofold, that is, equally allocating the workload as well as minimizing the travel cost.
A balanced heuristic mechanism (BHM) is proposed to achieve this goal.
We raised two improved task allocation methods by applying this mechanism to the auction and clustering strategies, respectively.
The results of simulated experiments demonstrate the success of the proposed approach regarding increasing the utilization of the robots as well as the efficiency of the whole warehouse system (by 5~15%).
In addition, the influence of the coefficient α inthe BHM is well-studied.
Typically, this coefficient is set between 0.7~0.9 to achieve good system performance.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zhou, Luowei& Shi, Yuanyuan& Wang, Jiangliu& Yang, Pei. 2014. A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1044212
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zhou, Luowei…[et al.]. A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1044212
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zhou, Luowei& Shi, Yuanyuan& Wang, Jiangliu& Yang, Pei. A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1044212
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1044212