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ARXIV:2603.26542 · ROBOTICS AUTOMATION · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26542ROBOTICS AUTOMATIONSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEMax Disselnmeyer · Thomas Bömer · Laura Dörr · Bastian Amberg · Anne Meyer · arXiv
Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs.
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Pain Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs.
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Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs. In dense floor storage environments, such as space-constrained brownfield facilities, manual operation is increasingly challenged…
Buffer zones are essential in production systems to decouple sequential processes. In dense floor storage environments, such as space-constrained brownfield facilities, manual operation is increasingly challenged by severe labor shortages and rising operational costs.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments demonstrate orders-of-magnitude computation time reductions compared to the exact formulation. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still…
Robotics Automation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26542Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs.
Abstract
Buffer zones are essential in production systems to decouple sequential processes. In dense floor storage environments, such as space-constrained brownfield facilities, manual operation is increasingly challenged by severe labor shortages and rising operational costs. Automating these zones requires solving the Buffer Storage, Retrieval, and Reshuffling Problem (BSRRP). While previous work has addressed scenarios where the focus is limited to reshuffling and retrieving a fixed set of items, real-world manufacturing necessitates an adaptive approach that also incorporates arriving unit loads. This paper introduces the Multi-AMR BSRRP, coordinating a robot fleet to manage concurrent reshuffling, alongside time-windowed storage and retrieval tasks, within a shared floor area. We formulate a Binary Integer Programming (IP) model to obtain exact solutions for benchmarking purposes. As the problem is NP-hard, rendering exact methods computationally intractable for industrial scales, we propose a hierarchical heuristic. This approach decomposes the problem into an A* search for task-level sequence planning of unit load placements, and a Constraint Programming (CP) approach for multi-robot coordination and scheduling. Experiments demonstrate orders-of-magnitude computation time reductions compared to the exact formulation. These results confirm the heuristic's viability as responsive control logic for high-density production environments.
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Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs. In dense floor storage environments, such as space-constrained brownfield facilities, manual operation is increasingly challenged by sever...
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Buffer zones are essential in production systems to decouple sequential processes. In dense floor storage environments, such as space-constrained brownfield facilities, manual operation is increasingly challenged by severe labor shortages and rising operational costs.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments demonstrate orders-of-magnitude computation time reductions compared to the exact formulation. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs pro...
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Robotics Automation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
This paper introduces the Multi-AMR BSRRP, coordinating a robot fleet to manage concurrent reshuffling, alongside time-windowed storage and retrieval tasks, within a shared floor area.
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We formulate a Binary Integer Programming (IP) model to obtain exact solutions for benchmarking purposes.
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As the problem is NP-hard, rendering exact methods computationally intractable for industrial scales, we propose a hierarchical heuristic.
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we propose a hierarchical heuristic. This approach decomposes the problem into an A* search for task-level sequence planning of unit load placements, and a Constraint Programming (CP) approach for multi-robot coordination and scheduling.
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Experiments demonstrate orders-of-magnitude computation time reductions compared to the exact formulation.
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These results confirm the heuristic's viability as responsive control logic for high-density production environments.
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BRP research often assumes single-crane operations (Ji, Guo, Zhu, & Yang, 2015; Tang & Ren, 2010), the BSRRP utilizes AMRs with greater operational flexibility, enabling coordinated navigation within a shared workspace without rigid segmentation.
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BSRRP addresses scenarios where AMRs are restricted to perimeter access (see Figure 2), due to the characteristics of the layout, unit loads, or AMR fleet, necessitating logic to handle LIFO access constraints from the outside.
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Develops a heuristic approach for robotic buffer management in dense production facilities to address labor shortages and operational costs.
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