Due to the availability of Industry 4.0 technology, the application of big data analytics to automated systems is possible. The distribution of products between warehouses or within a warehouse is an area that can benefit from automation based on Industry 4.0 technology. In this paper, the focus was on developing a dynamic route-planning system for automated guided vehicles within a warehouse. A dynamic routing problem with real-time obstacles was considered in this research. A key problem in this research area is the lack of a real-time route-planning algorithm that is suitable for the implementation on automated guided vehicles with limited computing resources. An optimization model, as well as machine learning methodologies for determining an operational route for the problem, is proposed. An internal layout of the warehouse of a large consumer product distributor was used to test the performance of the methodologies. A simulation environment based on Gazebo was developed and used for testing the implementation of the route-planning system. Computational results show that the proposed machine learning methodologies were able to generate routes with testing accuracy of up to 98% for a practical internal layout of a warehouse with 18 storage racks and 67 path segments. Managerial insights into how the machine learning configuration affects the prediction accuracy are also provided.
Due to an advancement in Industry 4.0 technology, various autonomous systems have been developed in order to increase the operational efficiency. This paper considers an application of Industry 4.0 technology to an autonomous transportation operation. The paper focuses on applying a machine learning technique to a dynamic path planning problem where real-time randomized obstacle locations are considered. The routes or the solutions from the dynamic path planning problem are determined by an A-star algorithm, which are then used to build machine learning models based on an artificial neural network. The models were developed to discover the relationship between the input and output of the dynamic path planning problem. The structure of the network which is defined by the number of intermediate layers and the number of nodes is provided, where the overall accuracy is used to evaluate the setting efficiency. The proposed methodology was tested with a problem that consists of 7 types of paths, and the number of randomized obstacles fluctuated from 1 to 8. The paths were generated based on a layout of a consumer product warehouse. The proposed model succeeded in predicting the robot paths with 98.5% prediction accuracy.
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