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Autonomous shuttles for a logistical warehouse : automatic design of the warehouse

Pletinckx, Cyril
(2021)

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Supervisors
Schaus, Pierre
Faculty
Ecole polytechnique de Louvain
Degree label
Master [120] : ingénieur civil en informatique, à finalité spécialisée
Abstract
Automation has been growing in every part of the humans’ life in the last decade. We are at the beginning of a new era where efficiency is pushed to its limits by making all the repetitive tasks automated. Robots, or more generally machines, are able to achieve a much higher throughput of operations per hour than humans and are not subject to tiredness or emotions which makes them also more reliable. A field that is definitely prone to be automated concerns the logistical warehouses. This comes with scheduling and tasks assignment algorithms but the choice to automate a warehouse also induces some constraints. Good management algorithms are needed for an automated warehouse to work as intended but it is not enough to use these algorithms in an environment that is not suited for the task at hand. This thesis aims at analyzing how the design choices of the warehouse could be automated as well. The goal of this work is to study existing algorithms that would allow to find the best number of shuttles to use or the dimensions of the warehouse to have under a certain workload for the warehouse to work as intended and as efficiently as possible. The design term is used here to refer to all the choices that must be made to build a particular warehouse.