A self-organizing neural network approach for the single AGV routing problem

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2000-02-15

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Soylu, M
Özdemirel, Nur Evin
Kayaligil, S

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In this research, a special form of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) routing problem is investigated. The objective is to find the shortest tour for a single, free-ranging AGV that has to carry out multiple pick and deliver (P&D) requests. This problem is an incidence of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem which is known to be NP-complete. An artificial neural network algorithm based on Kohonen's self-organizing feature maps is developed to solve the problem, and several improvements on the basic features of self-organizing maps are proposed. Performance of the algorithm is rested under various parameter settings for different P&D request patterns and problem sizes, and compared with the optimal solution and the nearest neighbor rule. Promising results are obtained in terms of solution quality and computation time.

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Neural networks, Asymmetric traveling salesman problem, Self-organizing maps, AGV routing

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37761

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

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https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(99)00032-6

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Article

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M. Soylu, N. E. Özdemirel, and S. Kayaligil, “A self-organizing neural network approach for the single AGV routing problem,” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, pp. 124–137, 2000, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37761.