From the time immemorial coconut bunches were harvested at two monthly intervals. In general two such bunches are harvested at a given harvest. However on the average a coconut bunch matures more or less every month. If these could be harvested at monthly intervals without any adverse effect on the nuts there will be several benefits. These are availability of nuts over the months, savings on m...

The world’s global plastics waste crisis demands policy coordination and technological solutions to improve management systems, organizations worldwide have created momentum around the concept of a circular economy. This paper advances holistic, inclusive economy framework that aims empower pickers with following basic pillars: (1) build collaborative networks stakeholders enable inclusion pick...

This paper presents a collection of path planning algorithms for realtime movement of multiple robots across a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS). Robots are assigned to move storage units to pickers at working stations instead of requiring pickers to go to the storage area. Path planning algorithms aim to find paths for the robots to fulfill the requests without collisions or deadlocks. ...

The article analyzes various aspects related to the meta-stereotype of 99 trash pickers who made their living from the garbage dumps in León (Nicaragua). This group is difficult to access, heavily stigmatized, and lives in extreme poverty. All the pickers in the city were interviewed using a heteroapplied structured interview. The results show that people who obtained their livelihood from garb...

Brazil produces more than 79 million tons of municipal solid waste per year, and around 1 pickers work in the recovery this waste. Brazilian law provides for social inclusion these workers with a leading role management. The legislation makes it possible to recover energy from waste, but there is resistance pickers, as technologies can consume materials that are value such paper, fabrics plasti...

In this paper we will deal with the sequencing and routing problem of order pickers in conventional multi-parallel-aisle warehouse systems. For this NP-hard Steiner Travelling Salesman Problem exact algorithms only exist for warehouses with at most three cross aisles. We propose a new approach were the problem of routing order pickers in multiple-block warehouses is translated into a classical ...