With the need for extremely high accuracy in pharmaceutical distribution, automated technologies are standard for order fulfillment and specifying the automated system that best meets storage and throughput constraints is a complex process. This research provides a heuristic to address the issues related to SKU assignment and allocation in the most common automated order picking system, an A-fr...

In profit-oriented environments, such as warehousing, the minimization of labor costs, and thus the flexibility of labor force is an increasingly important issue. Such an operating policy requires effective capacity planning methods to determine the number of personnel and equipment per activity and scheduling procedures to define the sequence of tasks by considering their strict deadline. In t...

Abstract. This paper describes recognition and cutting system of sweet peppers for picking robots in greenhouse horticulture. This picking robot has an image processing system with a positioning system for two cameras and cutting a device to follow the sweet pepper by visual feedback control. A prototype robot system is introduced. Experiments of the prototype robot prove the performance of the...