With the application of in-house logistics automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems for transportation three different control problems arise: task assignment, empty vehicle balancing and routing. With an increasing fleet size and especially when considering requirements like flexibility and...

This paper investigates a scheduling approach for Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, enabling transport load transfers between vehicles during transport execution. The vehicles can use predefined transfer stations to buffer transport loads until the transport continues by a following vehicle. The...

Warehouse Management Systeme sind State-of-the-Art in der innerbetrieblichen Materialflusskontrolle. Neben den elementaren Funktionen einer Lagerverwaltung wie Mengen- und Lagerplatzverwaltung, Fördermittelsteuerung und -disposition gehören auch Methoden und Mittel zur Kontrolle der...