Autonomous Guided Vehicles - Saidi-Mehrabad, Mohammad

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Résumé :
This book provides readers with extensive information on path planning optimization for both single and multiple Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs), and discusses practical issues involved in advanced industrial applications of AGVs. After discussing previously published research in the field and highlighting the current gaps, it introduces new models developed by the authors with the goal of reducing costs and increasing productivity and effectiveness in the manufacturing industry. The new models address the increasing complexity of manufacturing networks, due for example to the adoption of flexible manufacturing systems that involve automated material handling systems, robots, numerically controlled machine tools, and automated inspection stations, while also considering the uncertainty and stochastic nature of automated equipment such as AGVs. The book discusses and provides solutions to important issues concerning the use of AGVs in the manufacturing industry, including material flow optimization with AGVs, programming manufacturing systems equipped with AGVs, reliability models, the reliability of AGVs, routing under uncertainty, and risks involved in AGV-based transportation. The clear style and straightforward descriptions of problems and their solutions make the book an excellent resource for graduate students. Moreover, thanks to its practice-oriented approach, the novelty of the findings and the contemporary topic it reports on, the book offers new stimulus for researchers and practitioners in the broad field of production engineering.

Biographie:
Hamed Fazlollahtabar earned a BSc and an MSc in industrial engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in the area of reliability engineering for complex systems from October 2016 to March 2017. He joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at Damghan University, Damghan, Iran, in June 2017, and currently is working as an Associate Professor. He is a member of Iran Elites foundation. He has been chosen as Exemplary Researcher of Iran in all Engineering Diciplines, 2022 and Distinguished Young Industrial Engineering Researcher, Iran Academy of Science. 2023. He has been listed as world top 2% scientists in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. His research interests are in uncertain decision making and analytics, industry 4.0+ production systems, reliability engineering, and sustainable supply chain planning. ...

Sommaire:
Models for AGVs' Scheduling and Routing.- Analytical Material Flow Model for AGV System.- Nonlinear Stochastic Modelfor AGV System.- Reliability Model for AGV.- Uncertain Optimal Path for AGV System.- Cross Entropy Model for AGV Routing Time.- Neuro-Fuzzy-Regression Expert System for AGV Optimal Path.- Optimal Path for AGV System with Intelligent Agents.- Earliness/Tardiness for a Multiple AGV System.- Markovian Model for Multiple AGV System.- Producer's Behavior Analysis for AGV System.- Risk for Multiple AGV System.