Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1697701 Journal of Manufacturing Systems 2013 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we present two algorithms to design flow path and the location of its pickup and delivery (P/D) stations simultaneously in a block layout for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). We develop two algorithms to solve this problem. The first one is a cutting-plane algorithm to solve the mixed integer linear program that models the problem. The second one is a Simulated Annealing (SA) approach which solves the problem heuristically to a near best solution. Computational results show the performance of both algorithms.

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