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A dispatching method for automated guided vehicles by using a bidding concept

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A dispatching method is suggested for automated guided vehicles by using an auction algorithm. The dispatching method in this study is different from traditional dispatching rules in that it looks into the future for an efficient assignment of delivery tasks to vehicles and also in that multiple tasks are matched with multiple vehicles. The dispatching method in this study is distributed in the sense that the dispatching decisions are made through communication among related vehicles and machines. The theoretical rationale behind the distributed dispatching method is also discussed. Through a simulation study, the performance of the method is compared with that of a popular dispatching rule.

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  1. Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Sodai-Nishiwaseda bldg. 6F, 1-21-1 Nishiwaseda Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, 169-0051, Japan (e-mail: {jklim; takA12}@mn.waseda.ac.jp) , , , , , , JP

    Jae Kook Lim & Teruo Takahashi

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Jangjeon-dong, Kumjeong-ku, Pusan 609-735, Korea (e-mail: kapkim@pusan.ac.kr; chiwoo@sktelecom.com) , , , , , , KR

    Kap Hwan Kim & Jun Ho Lee

  3. Department of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-8555 Japan (e-mail: kazuho@yoshi.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp) , , , , , , JP

    Kazuho Yoshimoto

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ID="*" The research was financially supported by the Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant from The Japan Science Society. The original version of the simulation program is provided by Professor Jae Yeon Kim at Dong Yang University, Korea.

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Lim, J., Kim, K., Yoshimoto, K. et al. A dispatching method for automated guided vehicles by using a bidding concept. OR Spectrum 25, 25–44 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-002-0116-0

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