Automatic Storage and Retrieval System using a Single Mobile Robot

Because of the Big Data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things all represent potential breakthroughs for productivity and have received considerable attention which has automated many areas of our lives. So, one of these areas is the robot industry. Robots have advanced in significant ways as they have opened technology for exciting new use cases in the supply chain. Mobile autonomous robots can travel through warehouse aisles to execute tasks more efficiently than human labor alone. Pick and store robotize system is a robot car that can follow a deterministic path depending on special algorithms that gives path with the desired specification. Two approaches for automatic storage and retrieval system are produced in this paper: The minimum path approach and the closest first approach. Both approaches use a single mobile robot to store and retrieval several orders to a single received station. In the first approach, the order with the shortest path from the robot to the receiver station through its location is chosen as the first order to be executed. In the second approach, the order with the smallest distance to the robot is executed at first. Several simulation results are tested to show this improvement in length of path and time of arrival.