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A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses

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  • Luowei Zhou
  • Yuanyuan Shi
  • Jiangliu Wang
  • Pei Yang

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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 in the BHM is well-studied. Typically, this coefficient is set between 0.7~0.9 to achieve good system performance.

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  • Luowei Zhou & Yuanyuan Shi & Jiangliu Wang & Pei Yang, 2014. "A Balanced Heuristic Mechanism for Multirobot Task Allocation of Intelligent Warehouses," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2014, pages 1-10, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:380480
    DOI: 10.1155/2014/380480
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    1. Kaibo Liang & Li Zhou & Jianglong Yang & Huwei Liu & Yakun Li & Fengmei Jing & Man Shan & Jin Yang, 2023. "Research on a Dynamic Task Update Assignment Strategy Based on a “Parts to Picker” Picking System," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-29, March.

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