Research background
"Robot"
This is the demonstration facility of Kiva Systems, a start-up in Woburn, Mass., just north of Boston, that wants to reinvent the centuries-old warehouse business. Kiva’s idea is simple: by making inventory items come to the warehouse workers rather than vice versa, you can fulfill orders faster. A computer cluster keeps track of all robots and racks on the floor, and resource-allocation algorithms efficiently orchestrate their movement.
"Algorithm"
MAPF is an important type of multi-agent planning problem in which the task is to plan paths for multiple agents, where the key constraint is that the agents will be able to follow these paths concurrently without colliding with each other. MAPF has a range of relevant contemporary applications including automated warehouses, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. Consequently, this problem has received attention in recent years from various research groups and academic communities.
What can MAPFame do?
MAPFame has several robot path planning algorithms built in. It allows users to design their own algorithms to simulate environments based on real environments.
By running the different algorithms built into MAPFame, MAPFame collects the data generated during the simulation and analyses how well the algorithms match the environment and how well they perform based on the results of the algorithm runs.
MAPFame also opens up a standard algorithm interface, allowing users to design their own algorithms and import them into the MAPFame system for simulation.
User Guidelines
Users can use MAPFame on most platforms, e.g. Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, and they have the flexibility to choose which device they want to use, depending on their environment.
The initial development of MAPFame has been completed and software testing and the preparation of an instruction manual are in progress. If you are interested in the results of our research, please get in touch with us via the email address at the bottom.
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