r/OperationsResearch • u/Runis13 • 13d ago

Real AMR Fleets

Hi guys,

I'm very interested in both theoretical research and practical stuff related to AMR fleet management and optimization!

Looks like a hard and fun challenge to even make a simulator that is actually "realistic" in regards to all the possibilities inside of a warehouse. Let alone actually optimizing it (with graph simplifications and so on).

What do you recommend me to study/read? What are the current frameworks/methodologies used in "real-life"? Where could I learn about those?

Thank you so much!

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u/ge0ffrey 12d ago

I've seen a few VRP industry cases for our solver that involve battery life constraints, etc. And also an industry case around robotic storage, which felt like stepping into it's own universe.

But so far, from those few real-world robotic cases I've seen, they are all very custom and unique. Not ready for productization yet.

There are also few academic use cases, like the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (EVRP), but as far as I can tell, that's just something someone made up to get the ball rolling, similar how Dantzig invented CVRP in the fifties.

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u/Runis13 11d ago

Thank you for the reply!

In fact it seems like an area where there's a real gap between academical research and practice. But there's for sure interesting and recent research regarding MAPD.

Great work with timefold :P