Towards Sensor-Actuator Coupling in an Automated Order Picking System by Detecting Sealed Seams on Pouch Packed Goods

Towards Automated Building Management through Cooperative Sensor-actuator Networks

Sensor-actuator networks require sharing of actuators across multiple applications. Here, simple device arbitration is not enough because actuators have lasting (or irreversible) effects on their environment. For example, actuating a heater not only affects the internal program state of the controlling application, but the nearby temperature as well. This change in external environment often ha...

Order-picking workstations for automated warehouses

| This dissertation addresses performance analysis of order-picking workstations for automated warehouses. The first chapter provides a general overview of warehousing and order-picking systems (OPS). A classification of OPS is discussed. Literature regarding endof-aisle OPS, which is the type of system considered in this dissertation, is reviewed in greater detail. Typical issues for this syst...

Title Order batching and picking in a synchronized zone order picking system

Order picking has been considered as one of the most critical operations in warehouse. In this study, we propose an analytical approximation model based on probability and queueing network theory to analyze order batching and picking area zoning on the mean order throughput time in a synchronized zone picker-to-part order picking system. The resulting model can be easily applied in the design a...

Towards Trustworthy Shared Sensor-Actuator Networks

An automated picking workstation for healthcare applications

The costs associated with the management of healthcare systems have been subject to continuous scrutiny for some time now, with a view to reducing them without affecting the quality as perceived by final users. A number of different solutions have arisen based on centralisation of healthcare services and investments in Information Technology (IT). One such example is centralised management of p...