Online Dispatching and Routing for Automated Guided Vehicles in Pickup and Delivery Systems on Loop-Based Graphs

ArXi:2310.02195v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are widely used in various industries, and scheduling and routing them in a conflict-free manner is crucial to their efficient operation. We propose a loop-based algorithm that solves the online, conflict-free scheduling and routing problem for AGVs with any capacity and ordered jobs in loop-based graphs. The proposed algorithm is compared against an exact method, a greedy heuristic and a metaheuristic.