Title :
Guest Editorial: A Revolution in the Warehouse: A Retrospective on Kiva Systems and the Grand Challenges Ahead
Author_Institution :
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
The author reflects on the automation and robotics innovations that Kiva Systems developed that allow the company to successfully develop and deploy warehouse systems with hundreds - sometimes thousands - of autonomous mobile robots, and to describe some of the remaining research questions.
Keywords :
Mobile robots; Multiagent systems; Reliability;
Journal_Title :
Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASE.2012.2214676
