Platform-based AS/RS for container storage

The ever-increasing demand on container port throughput has mounted the necessity of a more efficient container storage structure, the requirements of which apparently can be met by AS/RS because of its abilities of fully automating material handling and the potentials for delivering high performanc...

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Published in2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.03CH37422) Vol. 1; pp. 181 - 187 vol.1
Main Authors Chuanyu Chen, Shell-Ying Huang, Wen-Jing Hsu, Ah Cheong Toh, Chee Kit Loh
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2003
Subjects
Amplitude shift keying
Automatic speech recognition
Containers
High performance computing
Information systems
Job shop scheduling
Material storage
Stacking
Storage automation
Throughput
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Summary:The ever-increasing demand on container port throughput has mounted the necessity of a more efficient container storage structure, the requirements of which apparently can be met by AS/RS because of its abilities of fully automating material handling and the potentials for delivering high performance. In this study, we present an AS/RS for container storage, develop the travel time models for the proposed system, and confirm its feasibility in terms of throughput performance. A pre-processing scheme for operation scheduling that significantly improves AS/RS throughput is proposed and evaluated. Additional constraints arising from the container size and weight on AS/RS design and scheduling are taken into considerations, which in effect leads to a platform-based AS/RS.
ISBN:0780377362
9780780377363
ISSN:1050-4729
2577-087X
DOI:10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241593