From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems
In a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system – a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) – robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and some of the...
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| description | In a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system – a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) – robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and some of them are interdependent and influence each other. In order to analyze the decision problems and the relationships between them, there are two open-source simulation frameworks in the literature, Alphabet Soup and RAWSim-O. However, the steps between simulation and real-world RMFSare not clear in the literature. Therefore, this paper aims to bridge this gap. The simulator is firstly transferred as core software. The core software is connected with an open-source ERP system, called Odoo, while it is also connected with real robots and stations through an XOR-bench. The XOR-bench enables the RMFS to be integrated with several mini-robots and mobile industrial robots in (removed) experiments for the purpose of research and education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d105b6f5510b45cf8ff9b564d35a3d9d2022-12-21T20:26:24ZengBVLLogistics Research1865-035X1865-03682019-09-0112910.23773/2019_9From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment SystemsLin XieNils ThiemeHanyi LiIn a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system – a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) – robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and some of them are interdependent and influence each other. In order to analyze the decision problems and the relationships between them, there are two open-source simulation frameworks in the literature, Alphabet Soup and RAWSim-O. However, the steps between simulation and real-world RMFSare not clear in the literature. Therefore, this paper aims to bridge this gap. The simulator is firstly transferred as core software. The core software is connected with an open-source ERP system, called Odoo, while it is also connected with real robots and stations through an XOR-bench. The XOR-bench enables the RMFS to be integrated with several mini-robots and mobile industrial robots in (removed) experiments for the purpose of research and education.https://www.bvl.de/lore/all-volumes--issues/volume-12/issue-1/from-simulation-to-real-world-robotic-mobile-fulfillment-systemsERP SystemSimulationRobotic Mobile Fulfillment SystemsWarehousing Systems |
| spellingShingle | Lin Xie Nils Thieme Hanyi Li From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems Logistics Research ERP System Simulation Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems Warehousing Systems |
| title | From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems |
| title_full | From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems |
| title_fullStr | From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems |
| title_short | From Simulation to Real-World Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems |
| title_sort | from simulation to real world robotic mobile fulfillment systems |
| topic | ERP System Simulation Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems Warehousing Systems |
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