SYNERGY BETWEEN SHUTTLES AND STACKER CRANES IN DYNAMIC HYBRID PALLET WAREHOUSES: CONTROL STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Authors

  • Giulia Siciliano Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics Technical University of Munich Boltzmannstraße 15, Garching bei München, Germany
  • Yue Yu Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics Technical University of Munich Boltzmannstraße 15, Garching bei München, Germany
  • Johannes Fottner Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics Technical University of Munich Boltzmannstraße 15, Garching bei München, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.akwi.2022.3328

Keywords:

Dynamic Hybrid Pallet Warehouse, Shuttle, Stacker Crane, Discrete Event Simulation, Control Strategies

Abstract

This article considers two dynamic hybrid pallet warehouses obtained hybridizing a shuttle-based warehouse with stacker cranes. We begin by describing their design and characteristics. Afterwards, we explain the control algorithms that were developed for them. Next, we illustrate the modalities of the discrete event simulation study we ran to investigate their performance. In conclusion, we discuss the results in terms of throughput of the simulation study to individuate the field of application for the two layouts of dynamic hybrid pallet warehouses in comparison to stacker crane-based and shuttle-based warehouses.

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Published

2022-07-10

Issue

No. 15 (2022)

Section

Fundamentals

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Copyright (c) 2022 Giulia Siciliano, Yue Yu, Johannes Fottner

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