Deep Reinforcement Learning for Picker Routing Problem in Warehousing

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Auteurs principaux: Dunn, George, Charkhgard, Hadi, Eshragh, Ali, Mahmoudinazlou, Sasan, Stojanovski, Elizabeth
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author Dunn, George
Charkhgard, Hadi
Eshragh, Ali
Mahmoudinazlou, Sasan
Stojanovski, Elizabeth
author_facet Dunn, George
Charkhgard, Hadi
Eshragh, Ali
Mahmoudinazlou, Sasan
Stojanovski, Elizabeth
contents Order Picker Routing is a critical issue in Warehouse Operations Management. Due to the complexity of the problem and the need for quick solutions, suboptimal algorithms are frequently employed in practice. However, Reinforcement Learning offers an appealing alternative to traditional heuristics, potentially outperforming existing methods in terms of speed and accuracy. We introduce an attention based neural network for modeling picker tours, which is trained using Reinforcement Learning. Our method is evaluated against existing heuristics across a range of problem parameters to demonstrate its efficacy. A key advantage of our proposed method is its ability to offer an option to reduce the perceived complexity of routes.
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spellingShingle Deep Reinforcement Learning for Picker Routing Problem in Warehousing
Dunn, George
Charkhgard, Hadi
Eshragh, Ali
Mahmoudinazlou, Sasan
Stojanovski, Elizabeth
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Order Picker Routing is a critical issue in Warehouse Operations Management. Due to the complexity of the problem and the need for quick solutions, suboptimal algorithms are frequently employed in practice. However, Reinforcement Learning offers an appealing alternative to traditional heuristics, potentially outperforming existing methods in terms of speed and accuracy. We introduce an attention based neural network for modeling picker tours, which is trained using Reinforcement Learning. Our method is evaluated against existing heuristics across a range of problem parameters to demonstrate its efficacy. A key advantage of our proposed method is its ability to offer an option to reduce the perceived complexity of routes.
title Deep Reinforcement Learning for Picker Routing Problem in Warehousing
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03525