Print Email Facebook Twitter Control and Coordination for Automated Container Terminals Title Control and Coordination for Automated Container Terminals Author Xin, J. Contributor Lodewijks, G. (promotor) Negenborn, R.R. (promotor) Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Maritime and Transportation Technology Date 2015-09-21 Abstract For enhancing the performance of automated container terminals, this PhD thesis focuses on improving energy efficiency and implementing more autonomous equipment (e.g., free-ranging AGVs) at the operational level. On the one hand, due to the increased energy price and environmental stress, energy efficiency needs to be improved. On the other hand, new emerging AGVs allow free-ranging behavior and can shorten the driving distance than using the traditional routing strategy, demanding a novel advanced control algorithm for scheduling and controlling the free-ranging AGVs and the other related machines. For achieving these research goals, both discrete-event dynamics and continuous-time dynamics are considered in this thesis, using a perspective of hybrid systems. Simulation experiments on compact, medium and large-scale terminal case studies show the potential of the proposed new approaches. Subject automated container terminalshybrid systemsenergy efficiencyfree-ranging AGVs To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:38a7c5ea-12bf-49eb-b7e7-8f72cce31141 Publisher TRAIL Research School Embargo date 2015-09-21 ISBN 978-90-5584-194-3 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2015 Xin, J. Files PDF PhD_thesis_Control_and_Co ... minals.pdf 1.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:38a7c5ea-12bf-49eb-b7e7-8f72cce31141/datastream/OBJ/view