In the business-to-business sector large quantities of the internationally traded goods are transported by hundreds in identical parcels inside shipping containers. These parcels are often unloaded manually, which is labor-intensive and physically demanding. In previous papers, we presented a...

Robot-based compact storage and retrieval systems (RCSRS) have seen many implementations over the last few years. In such a system, the inventory items are stored in bins, organized in a grid. In each cell of the grid, a certain number of bins are stored on top of each other. Robots with...

Performance measurement of robotic controllers based on fuzzy logic, operating under uncertainty, is a subject area which has been somewhat ignored in the current literature. In this paper standard measures such as RMSE are shown to be inappropriate for use under conditions where the...