Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: Strategies for Pod Selection and Scheduling
Research Summary 📃 Robotic mobile fulfillment (RMF) systems automate storage and transportation within fulfillment centers while still relying on human pickers. We focus on two key performance metrics in these systems, aiming to minimize overall completion time (OCT) as the primary objective and the number of required robots (NRR) as a secondary objective. We investigate two interrelated operational problems influencing these metrics: (i) pod selection, which involves choosing the mobile racks (pods) for item picking, and (ii) pod scheduling, which entails assigning these racks to pickers and determining the picking sequence.
Nov 1, 2024