Automated System for the Container Loading Problem Integrating Linear Programming and Automated Planning

The container loading problem has been widely studied recently, in order to reduce logistical costs. The container's applicability is based on the reduction on losses, theft, damaging of goods and general costs, that such device provides. On the other hand, automated planning research, intends to assist the industrial processes for systematically specifying a set of actions that allows achieving a predefined goal. It is noteworthy that in the actions, specifying process a metric can be added for minimizing purposes, but according to each automated planners characteristics, the insertion of such metrics is relatively bounded. The main proposal of this work is to create a fully automated system, capable of carrying out the entire loading process through the information referred to the products, to the container and the transporting devices.