TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent travel route planning for bridge crane type of material handling equipment in cellular manufacturing
AU - Xingl, Bo
AU - Gao, Wen Ling
AU - Battle, Kimberly
AU - Marwala, Tshilidzi
AU - Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this work, we propose the bridge crane travel path optimization for batch order picking (BOP). Successful solving this problem is valuable to many application areas in manufacturing systems. We then investigate the feasibility of using ant colony optimization (ACO) meta-heuristics to address the proposed problem. Simulation tests are executed separately based on two ACO algorithms. Finally, the bridge crane operating performance measure index is employed to evaluate the experimental results achieved by different ACO algorithms. Experimental case study demonstrates the effectiveness and applicability of the selected ACO approaches to our proposed BOP problem for bridge crane.
AB - In this work, we propose the bridge crane travel path optimization for batch order picking (BOP). Successful solving this problem is valuable to many application areas in manufacturing systems. We then investigate the feasibility of using ant colony optimization (ACO) meta-heuristics to address the proposed problem. Simulation tests are executed separately based on two ACO algorithms. Finally, the bridge crane operating performance measure index is employed to evaluate the experimental results achieved by different ACO algorithms. Experimental case study demonstrates the effectiveness and applicability of the selected ACO approaches to our proposed BOP problem for bridge crane.
KW - Ant colony optimization
KW - Batch order picking
KW - Bridge crane
KW - Cellular manufacturing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78751560419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641894
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641894
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751560419
SN - 9781424465880
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 2795
EP - 2799
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
Y2 - 10 October 2010 through 13 October 2010
ER -