• DocumentCode
    1280640
  • Title

    Guest Editorial: A Revolution in the Warehouse: A Retrospective on Kiva Systems and the Grand Challenges Ahead

  • Author

    D´Andrea, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    638
  • Lastpage
    639
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1545-5955
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASE.2012.2214676
  • Filename
    6295687