A dispatching method is suggested for automated guided vehicles by using an auction algorithm. The dispatching method in this study is different from traditional dispatching rules in that it looks into the future for an efficient assignment of delivery tasks to vehicles and also in that multiple tasks are matched with multiple vehicles. The dispatching method in this study is distributed in the sense that the dispatching decisions are made through communication among related vehicles and machines. The theoretical rationale behind the distributed dispatching method is also discussed. Through a simulation study, the performance of the method is compared with that of a popular dispatching rule. © 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Lim, J. K., Kim, K. H., Yoshimoto, K., Lee, J. H., & Takahashi, T. (2005). A dispatching method for automated guided vehicles by using a bidding concept. In Container Terminals and Automated Transport Systems: Logistics Control Issues and Quantitative Decision Support (pp. 325–344). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26686-0_14
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