Smart Automated Guided Vehicles and Autonomous Mobile Robots in Warehouse Operations: A Bibliometric Analysis

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are material handling equipment typically used in intralogistics setting. While traditional AGVs have been implemented widely for several decades, the smart AGVs or AMRs have been only recently deployed. This paper attempts to analyze the body of literature on smart AGVs or AMRs, particularly in warehouse operations using bibliometric analysis. The metadata was retrieved from the Scopus database, resulting in 1,380 articles published from 2000 to 2022. Statistical analysis is used to identify leading publisher, author, organization, and country. Author's keywords co-occurrence network and overlay visualization, generated by VOSviewer, are used to demonstrate the current research landscape. Moreover, emerging keywords and research issues correspond to the network visualization are presented.