This paper addresses the operational planning problem of assigning orders and pods (i.e., mobile shelves) to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS), which deals with two issues: deciding on which picking station handles which order, and from which pods to pick...

In a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system - a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) - robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and some of...

In a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system – a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) – robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and...