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Mar 20, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How Idle‑Time Optimization Boosts Robot Sorting Center Efficiency

This article presents a comprehensive study of robot cluster scheduling in modern sorting centers, introducing idle‑time optimization (ITO) and its path‑finding extension (PITO) to minimize workstation idle periods, describing problem modeling, network‑flow formulations, lifelong TAPF extensions, and experimental results that demonstrate over 10% throughput gains.