Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics - Pence, Ira W.

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Résumé :
The first integrated presentation of leading-edge contributions to material handling and logistics, this book provides up-to-the-date research results for a wide range of topics of interest to those concerned with the design and operation of material and logistics systems. Both software and hardware issues are treated. Likewise, the emergence of new technologies and intelligent application of existing technologies are considered in the treatise. The book was written with the objective of providing the designer, manager, researcher, and student of material handling and logistics systems with a perspective of ongoing research, a ready collection of recent research results, and an improved understanding of how to design and operate such systems. It provides a contemporary collection of papers that contribute to increased understanding of the status of intelligent material handling and logistics. Leading-edge research results and technological forecasts are provided so that those who are designing future-generation material handling and logistics systems will be able to anticipate advances in technology.

Sommaire:
Section One: Guided Vehicle Technology.- Guided Vehicle Technology: From Automated to Autonomous.- The Design and Construction of Three Autonomous Vehicles.- Evaluation of Heuristic Control Strategies for AGVs Under Varying Demand Arrival Patterns.- Towards a Free-Roving Vision-Guided AGV.- Section Two: Robot Technology.- Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision.- Increasing the Speed of Computers Using Optics.- Control of High-Speed Material Handling Manipulators.- Experiments on the Control of a Satellite Manipulator.- Section Three: Automated Storage and Retrieval Technology.- Control Design Issues for Material Handling Systems.- The Automation of Material Handling System's Control Software.- The Analysis of AS/RS Performance.- An Empirical Evaluation of a General Purpose Automated Order Accumulation and Sortation System Used in Batch Picking.- Section Four: Modeling Technology.- Simulating Material Handling Systems.- Networks of Queues with Blocking and Load Balancing.- Manufacturing Systems Modelling: Its Role and Current Issues.- Modeling Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Product-Form Queueing Networks.- Validation of Manufacturing System Models.- Section Five: Flexible Manufacturing.- Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Real-Time Optimization in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility.- Machine Configuration for Flexible Assembly Systems.- Design and Operating Issues in Flexible Manufacturing.- Section Six: Transportation.- Linehaul-Backhaul: Solutions with Spacefilling Curves.