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Self-organizing warehouse management based on communicating distributed memory tags
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2011
Sprache
English
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Institut
Start Page
232
End Page
237
Article Number
6042467
Citation
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2011 : Trieste, Italy, 24 - 27 August 2011. - Pscataway, NJ, 2011. - Art. no. 6042467 (i.e. pp. 232-237) (2011)
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Publisher
IEEE
ISBN of container
978-1-4577-1730-7
978-1-4577-1732-1
This paper is about a theoretic model for resource based communication using the example of an autonomous warehouse. Autonomous automata handle boxes in the warehouse just based on the information they can read in their direct environment. These automata act according to two concurring algorithms. One is for finding boxes and carrying them to an output. The other algorithm is used to store boxes inside the warehouse. There is no direct communication between different automata in the warehouse. Analogous to stationary pheromones their communication is based on information that can be read from and written to their direct environment. This environment is the common communication resource and is acting as collective memory used independently by all robot automata. By this simple communication model a structure emerges in the placement of the boxes. Although representable as a common cellular automaton this model is presented basing on robots moving on a grid and memory tags that can be read and written to.
Subjects
cellular automaton
collective memory
communication
pheromone based communication
resource communication
self organization
warehouse structure
DDC Class
004: Informatik
330: Wirtschaft
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften