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Planning of flow path to minimize expected waiting time for free-ranging automated guided vehicle systems

Shen et al., 1997

Document ID
7666922917718688101
Author
Shen Y
Lau L
Publication year
Publication venue
1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation

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Recent advances in the technology permit automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to travel without any physical guide path: free-ranging AGVs. These virtual flow paths provide more flexibility since vehicles can travel in both directions on the path. This paper presents a two …
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    • G06Q—DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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