Warehouse automation by logistic robotic networks: a cyber-physical control approach

In this paper we provide a tutorial on the background of warehouse automation using robotic networks and survey relevant work in the literature. We present a new cyber-physical control method that achieves safe, deadlock-free, efficient, and adaptive behavior of multiple robots serving the goods-to-...

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Published inFrontiers of information technology & electronic engineering Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 693 - 704
Main Author Cai, Kai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hangzhou Zhejiang University Press 01.05.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
Subjects
Adaptive control
Algorithms
Automation
Communications Engineering
Computer Hardware
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Control methods
Control theory
Controllers
Efficiency
Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Microelectronics
Instrumentation
Logistics
Multiple robots
Networks
Robotics
Robots
Supervisory control
Trends
Tutorial
Warehouses
Cyber-physical systems
Discrete-event systems
Robotic networks
Warehouse automation
TP27
Logistics
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Summary:In this paper we provide a tutorial on the background of warehouse automation using robotic networks and survey relevant work in the literature. We present a new cyber-physical control method that achieves safe, deadlock-free, efficient, and adaptive behavior of multiple robots serving the goods-to-man logistic operations. A central piece of this method is the incremental supervisory control design algorithm, which is computationally scalable with respect to the number of robots. Finally, we provide a case study on 30 robots with changing conditions to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
ISSN:2095-9184
2095-9230
DOI:10.1631/FITEE.2000156