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Dispatching and Conflict-Free Routing of Automated Guided Vehicles: A Hybrid Approach Combining Constraint Programming and Mixed Integer Programming

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Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR 2004)

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This paper reports on the on-going development of a hybrid approach for dispatching and conflict-free routing of automated guided vehicles used for material handling in manufacturing. The approach combines Constraint Programming for scheduling and Mixed Integer Programming for routing without conflict. The objective of this work is to provide a reliable method for solving instances with a large number of vehicles. The proposed approach can also be used heuristically to obtain very good solution quickly.

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  1. Département de Mathématiques et de Génie Industriel, École Polytechnique de Montréal and GERAD, C.P 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada, H3C 2A7

    Ayoub Insa Corréa, André Langevin & Louis Martin Rousseau

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  1. ILOG Sophia Antipolis, Les Taissounières HB2, 1681 route des Dolines, 06560, Valbonne, France

    Jean-Charles Régin

  2. Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, I3S-CNRS, 06903, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Michel Rueher

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Corréa, A.I., Langevin, A., Rousseau, L.M. (2004). Dispatching and Conflict-Free Routing of Automated Guided Vehicles: A Hybrid Approach Combining Constraint Programming and Mixed Integer Programming. In: Régin, JC., Rueher, M. (eds) Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. CPAIOR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24664-0_26

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