IEICE Trans - A Consideration on a Sliding Palette Problem in a Two-Dimensional Automatic Warehouse

A Consideration on a Sliding Palette Problem in a Two-Dimensional Automatic Warehouse

Kenji SHIMIZU
Akio SAKAMOTO
Shuji TSUKIYAMA
Mitsuru NUMATA
Takashi KAWABATA

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E74-A No.4 pp.644-652
Publication Date: 1991/04/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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Summary:
In this paper, we consider an automatic warehouse, in which r

c-k palettes are arranged two-dimensionally on a grid with r rows c columns. The palettes in the warehouse can slide independently and simultaneously with the use of k spaces, unless they come into collision. Then, we show the minimum number of sliding operations required to move a specified palette to a specified position, where one sliding operation is a set of slides of palettes which are executed simultaneously in a unit time withouto any collision.