Retrieval Strategies for a Carousel Conveyor,

Abstract

A carousel conveyor is a length of shelf fashioned into a closed loop that is rotatable (under computer control) in either direction. It is increasingly found in automated warehouses since it can help considerably with the storage and retrieval of small parts. Among the benefits of a carousel is that, rather than have a picker, human or robotic, travel to retrieve an item, the item can travel to the picker. This allows the picker to perform some other activity (e.g. sorting, packaging, labelling, or picking from another carousel) while the item is travelling. This parallelism of activity enables greater throughput and therefore enhanced warehouse operation. Originator-supplied keywords: Carousel conveyor, Retrieval, Automated storage-and-retrieval, Warehousing, Heuristic algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149994

Entities

People

  • J. J. Bartholdi Iii
  • L. K. Platzman

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computations
  • Control Systems
  • Conveyors
  • Engineering
  • Guarantees
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Intervals
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Revolutions
  • Sequences
  • Simulations
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Travel Time

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval
  • Autonomy