Travel time models for automated warehouses with aisle transferring storage and retrieval machine

Tone Lerher, Iztok Potrc, Matjaz Sraml and Tomaz Tollazzi

European Journal of Operational Research, 2010, vol. 205, issue 3, 571-583

Abstract: This paper presents analytical travel time models for the computation of travel time for automated warehouses with the aisle transferring S/R machine (in continuation multi-aisle AS/RS). These models consider the operating characteristics of the storage and retrieval machine such as acceleration and deceleration and the maximum velocity. Assuming uniform distributed storage rack locations and pick aisles and using the probability theory, the expressions of the cumulative distribution functions with which the mean travel time is calculated, have been determined. The computational models enable the calculation of the mean travel time for the single and dual command cycles, from which the performance of multi-aisle AS/RS can be evaluated. A simulation model of multi-aisle AS/RS has been developed to compare the performances of the proposed analytical travel time models. The analyses show that regarding all examined types of multi-aisle AS/RS, the results of proposed analytical travel time models correlate with the results of simulation models of multi-aisle AS/RS.

Keywords: Logistics; Automated; storage; and; retrieval; systems; Multi-aisle; system; Analytical; modeling; Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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