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In the innovative field of Physical Internet, the development of efficient PI-cross-docking hubs (denoted PI-hub) allowing quick, efficient and flexible transfer of containers is a cornerstone. The paper addresses the control of such facilities and focuses more particularly on a “rail-road” PI-hub. After a review of the related control issues, an instance of the ORCA hybrid control architecture is proposed. The focus is held on the PI-containers routing in a perturbed environment. More specifically, predictive and reactive routing strategies are presented. The simulation environment, protocol and results are then detailed.
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The authors would like to especially thank the French National Research Agency (ANR) which supports this work via the granted PI-NUTS Project (ANR-14-CE27-0015).
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Vo, NV., Berger, T., Bonte, T., Sallez, Y. (2018). Control of Rail-Road PI-Hub: The ORCA Hybrid Control Architecture. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Cardin, O. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73751-5_22
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