Control of Rail-Road PI-Hub: The ORCA Hybrid Control Architecture

Nhat-Vinh Vo , Thierry Berger (1, 2) , Thérèse Bonte (1) , Yves Sallez (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France

In the innovative field of Physical Internet, the development of efficient PI-cross-docking hubs (denoted PI-hub) allowing quick, efficient and flexible transfer of containers is a cornerstone. The paper addresses the control of such facilities and focuses more particularly on a “rail-road” PI-hub. After a review of the related control issues, an instance of the ORCA hybrid control architecture is proposed. The focus is held on the PI-containers routing in a perturbed environment. More specifically, predictive and reactive routing strategies are presented. The simulation environment, protocol and results are then detailed.

Mots clés: Physical internet; Logistics; Cross-dock; Hybrid control architecture

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Nhat-Vinh Vo, Thierry Berger, Thérèse Bonte, Yves Sallez. Control of Rail-Road PI-Hub: The ORCA Hybrid Control Architecture. Borangiu, Trentesaux, Thomas, Cardin. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing, 762, Springer International Publishing, pp.291-302, 2018, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-73751-5_22⟩. ⟨hal-03406001⟩