24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
Abstract Submission

4316. Multi-Neighborhood Search for the AGV Scheduling Problem with Battery Constraints

Invited abstract in session TF-43: Metaheuristics for Scheduling and Timetabling, stream Metaheuristics.

Tuesday, 16:15-17:45
Room: JUR – Seminar-Raum 63

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Roberto Maria Rosati
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
2. Maurizio Boccia
DIETI, University of Naples "Federico II"
3. Adriano Masone
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University "Federico II" of Naples
4. Claudio Sterle
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Università Federico II di Napoli

Abstract

The Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) scheduling problem with battery constraints consists of determining the scheduling of jobs and charging operations of a fleet of AGVs, such that the makespan is minimized.

Our solution method relies on an implicit solution representation and a greedy decoder. The implicit search space is explored by a composition of six neighborhoods: Move, Swap, Kick, Two-Opt, Three-Opt, and Rotate.

Experimental results demonstrate that our method finds nearly optimal solutions in short computing times, while handling multiple problem variants at the decoder level.

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Status: accepted


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