Krühn, Tobias; Sohrt, Simon; Overmeyer, Ludger - In: Logistics research 9 (2016) 1, pp. 1-14
In this paper, we describe a conveyor matrix consisting of small-scale, multi-directional transport modules that are considerably smaller than the transported packets. If a large number of these modules are combined into a matrix, the emerging network solves transport tasks through cooperation...