Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses

By Peter R. Wurman, Raffaello D'Andrea, Mick Mountz. The AI Magazine, 2007

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Shared Experience Actor-Critic for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2020, background): “2d: This multi-agent environment (similar to the one used in [2]) simulates robots that move goods around a warehouse, similarly to existing real-world applications [39].”
Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding for Online Pickup and Delivery Tasks (2017, background): “Examples include aircraft-towing vehicles [18], warehouse robots [31], oﬃce robots [28], and game characters in video games [21].”
Aligning Cyber Space With Physical World: A Comprehensive Survey on Embodied AI (2024, unknown): “2(b), are efﬁcient in logistics and warehousing due to their simple structure and low cost, like Kiva and Jackal robots [24].”
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