Intelligent Material Handling Systems: An Enabling Environment for Design and Control of Intelligent Material Handling Systems

该奖项属于智能物料搬运系统工程/计算机信息科学工程/CISE联合研究项目。目标是为智能物料处理系统开发一个有利的环境。该环境将整合运筹学、人工智能、控制工程、几何、机器人、视觉和并行计算等方面的分析和综合技术，形成一个无缝的、可扩展的系统，用于设计和控制物料搬运系统。这种环境的发展需要解决或调整上述每一个领域的一些基本问题，使它们对材料处理有用。此外，将这些领域的结果整合到一个单一系统中会引起涉及通信、资源分配和接口协议等方面的一些问题。将开发一个概念验证系统，演示智能材料处理使能环境（IMHEE）的概念。该系统将被配置为控制两个不同领域的材料处理系统：工厂车间和建筑施工现场。

This award is in the joint Engineering/Computer Information Science Engineering ENG/CISE Research Thrust in Intelligent Material Handling Systems. The objective is to develop an enabling environment for intelligent material handling systems. This environment will integrate, analysis and synthesis techniques from Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Controls Engineering, Geometry, Robotics and Vision and Parallel Computing into a seamless, extendable system for design and control of material handling systems. The development of such an environment requires that a number of fundamental problems in each of the areas mentioned above be solved or adapted to make them useful in material handling. Further, integration of results from these areas into a single system raises a number of questions involving communications, resources allocation and interfacing protocol etc. A proof-of-concept system demonstrating the concept of an intelligent material handling enabling environment (IMHEE) will be developed. This system will be configured to control material handling systems in two different domains: factory floors and building construction sites.