Warehouse automation has progressed at a rapid pace over the last decade. While the tendency has been to implement fully automated solutions, most warehouses today exist as a mixture of manually operated and fully automated material handling sections. In such a hybrid warehouse, men and machines move around goods in between sections in order to retrieve, transport and stack goods according to t...

We describe the application of a recently developed deliberative perception framework to the task of multiobject instance recognition in warehouse environments. Traditional object recognition pipelines based exclusively on discriminative feature-matching and/or statistical learners are often sensitive to inter-object occlusions and the training data used. Deliberative approaches such as PERCH t...

Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) become frequently used systems in warehouses. There has been a transition from human based forklift applications to fast and safe AS/RS applications in firm’s warehouse systems. In this study, basic components and automation systems of the AS/RS are examined. Proposed system's automation components and their tasks in the system control algorithm w...

Current logistic systems are the bottleneck in the factory automation. The automation in the logistics is only limited to the point of providing manual maps. The creation of these maps can take months for a moderately sized warehouse. The current logistic system can benefit from automatic generation of maps in 3D with semantic information associated with it. This work provides a methodology to ...

Without a proper dose of automation, warehouse managers are unable to achieve the operational performance and cost efficiencies needed to contribute to the greater good of the manufacturing enterprise. This is particularly important in materials handling, where the slightest inefficiency can lead to operational slowdowns and reputational damage with business partners and customers. To meet the ...

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This paper presents current research trends and ongoing challenges in data warehouse design methods. In secondary data use context, traditional data warehouse design methods don’t address many of today’s challenges; particularly in the healthcare domain were semantics plays an essential role to achieve an effective and implementable heterogeneous data integration while satisfying core requireme...