TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Automated guided vehicles - a review on applications, problem modeling and solutions
JO  - International journal of transportation engineering
A1  - Rashidi, Hassan
A1  - Matinfar, Farzam
A1  - Parand, FereshtehAzadi
SP  - 261
EP  - 278
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
N2  - In the past few decades, many research pieces were devoted to Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), both in hardware and software technology. Nowadays, these are popular for the automatic handling of materials, goods, and containers. They provide more efficient and flexible solutions for manufacturing and transportation systems. This paper does a survey on Automated Guided Vehicles in the real world, in port automation for automatic container handling and manufacturing systems for flexible material handling systems. The results of this survey reveal several corollaries over usage, modeling of problems, and solutions. Moreover, it presents several challenges for future research. The first challenge is to perform a simulation model that can handle multiple layouts in both container terminals and manufacturing systems. The second challenge is to work on the new technology of AGVs, which involves Industry 4.0. The third challenge is concerned with some dynamic vehicle routing strategies based on a two-tiered simulation. The fourth challenge is to develop more efficient algorithms for various problems of routing AGVs in practical applications.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2322-259X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22119/ijte.2021.246669.1531
ID  - ref1
ER  -