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http://dx.doi.org/10.5394/KINPR.2011.35.6.501

Optimizing dispatching strategy based on multicriteria heuristics for AGVs in automated container terminal  

Kim, Jeong-Min (Graduate school of Pusan National University)
Choe, Ri (Graduate school of Pusan National University)
Park, Tae-Jin (Graduate school of Pusan National University)
Ryu, Kwang-Ryul (Department of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University)
Abstract
This paper focuses on dispatching strategy for AGVs(Automated Guided Vehicle). The goal of AGV dispatching is assigning AGVs to requested job to minimizing the delay of QCs and the travel distance of AGVs. Due to the high dynamic nature of container terminal environment, the effect of dispatching is hard to predict thus it leads to frequent modification of dispatching decisions. In this situation, approaches based on a single rule are widely used due to its simplicity and small computational cost. However, these approaches have a limitation that cannot guarantee a satisfactory performance for the various performance measures. In this paper, dispatching strategy based on multicriteria heuristics is proposed. The Proposed strategy consists of multiple decision criteria. A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is applied to optimize weights of those criteria. The result of simulation experiment shows that the proposed approach outperforms single rule-based dispatching approaches.
Keywords
Automated container terminal; Automated Guided Vehicle; Dispatching strategy; Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm; Multicriteria heuristics;
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