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Los, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)The trends of autonomous transportation and mobility on demand in line with large numbers of requests increasingly call for decentralized vehicle routing optimization. Multi-agent systems (MASs) allow to model fully autonomous decentralized decision making, but are rarely considered in current decision support approaches. We propose a multi...conference paper 2022
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Los, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Collaboration in transportation is important to reduce costs and emissions, but carriers may have incentives to bid strategically in decentralized auction systems. We investigate what the effect of the auction strategy is on the possible cheating benefits in a dynamic context, such that we can recommend a method with lower chances for...conference paper 2022
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Niu, Y. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Human aspects in collaboration of humans and robots, as common in warehousing, are considered increasingly important objectives in operations management. This work aims to let robots learn about human discomfort in collaborative order picking of robotic mobile fulfillment systems. To this end, a multi-agent reinforcement (MARL) approach that...journal article 2021
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van der Tholen, Max (author), Alves Beirigo, B. (author), Jovanova, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author)The shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) is a new concept that meets the upcoming trends of autonomous driving and changing demands in urban transportation. SAVs can carry passengers and parcels simultaneously, making use of dedicated passenger and parcel modules on board. A fleet of SAVs could partly take over private transport, taxi, and last...conference paper 2021
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Grassel, Joshua (author), Keller, Alfred Craig (author), Hill, Alessandro (author), Schulte, F. (author)The craft beer supply chain in the USA differs from the supply chain of macro breweries in its structure, handled volumes and product shelf-life. In this work, we study how these smaller craft breweries can benefit from transparency in their supply chain. We consider additional information sharing of orders and inventories at downstream nodes...book chapter 2021
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Niu, Y. (author), Schulte, F. (author)Human aspects in collaboration of humans and robots, as common in warehousing, are considered increasingly important objectives in operations management. In this work, we let robots learn about human stress levels based on sensor data in collaborative order picking of robotic mobile fulfillment systems. To this end, we develop a multi-agent...conference paper 2021
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Xin, J. (author), Meng, Chuang (author), Schulte, F. (author), Peng, Jinzhu (author), Liu, Yanhong (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)This article investigates a new collision-free routing problem of a multirobot system. The objective is to minimize the cycle time of operation tasks for each robot while avoiding collisions. The focus is set on the operation of the end-effector and its connected joint, and the operation is projected onto a circular area on the plane. We...journal article 2020
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Los, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)The transportation market requires collaboration to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Individual carriers, however, might be hesitant to share their private information on a transportation platform. Although a few articles have investigated the value of information sharing, they assume identical behaviour of all carriers. In practice,...journal article 2020
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Pourmohammadzia, N. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been successfully applied in closed environments such as ports and industrial zones, while their operation in open areas has a long way to go. The current research is initiated to overcome this limitation by the introduction of platooning as a transfer mode. It investigates a container transportation problem...conference paper 2020
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Los, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Cooperation is important in order to find efficient vehicle routing solutions for the growing transportation market. Increasingly, platforms emerge as facilitators for this kind of collaborative transportation. However, individual actors connected to a platform might refuse to share (parts of) their information due to reasons of competition....journal article 2020
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Copeland, S.M. (author), Comes, M. (author), Bach, Sylvia (author), Nagenborg, Michael (author), Schulte, Yannic (author), Doorn, N. (author)More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people who make it up, or the geography or physical infrastructure they share? What about the resilience of communities that transform, as a result of a sudden...journal article 2020
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Atasoy, B. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Steenkamp, Alex (author)Over the last decade, platforms have emerged in numerous industries and often transformed them, posing new challenges for transportation research. Platform providers such as Uber, Uber Freight, Blackbuck, or Lyft mostly do not have immediate control over the physical resources needed to move people or goods. They often operate in a multi...journal article 2020
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Neijmeijer, Nout (author), Schulte, F. (author), Tierney, Kevin (author), Polinder, H. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Dynamic pricing can be used for better fleet distribution in free-floating vehicle sharing (FFVS), and thus increase utilization and revenue for the provider by reducing supply-demand asymmetry. Supply-demand asymmetry refers to the existence of an undersupply of vehicles at some locations at the same time as underutilization of vehicles at...conference paper 2020
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Alves Beirigo, B. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Residents of cities’ most disadvantaged areas face significant barriers to key life activities, such as employment, education, and healthcare, due to the lack of mobility options. Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) create an opportunity to overcome this problem. By learning user demand patterns, SAV providers can improve regional service...conference paper 2020
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Los, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Gansterer, Margaretha (author), Hartl, Richard F. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)While collaborative vehicle routing has a significant potential to reduce transportation costs and emissions, current approaches are limited in terms of applicability, unrealistic assumptions, and low scalability. Centralized planning generally assumes full information and full control, which is often unacceptable for individual carriers....conference paper 2020
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Pourmohammadzia, N. (author), Schulte, F. (author), Souravlias, D. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Automated ground vehicles (AGVs) are essential parts of container operations at many ports. Forming platoons—as conceptually established in trucking—may allow these vehicles to directly cater demand points such as dry ports in the hinterland. In this work, we aim to assess such AGV platoons in terms of operational efficiency and costs,...conference paper 2020
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Schulte, A. (author), Donath, D. (author)This contribution outlines a cognitive engineering approach to structure, describe and depict configurations for highly automated human-machine systems using a common language. These systems involve cognitive agents, for autonomous vehicle guidance and mission management. The method focusses on the systematic top-down deduction of requirements...conference paper 2019
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Izett, J.G. (author), van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author), Baas, P. (author), Schulte, R.B. (author)This poster will be presented at EMS 2019 in Copenhagen. Fog - in particular, the associated reduction is visibility - presents a hazard to airport operations. Although tech- nology has improved to allow greater safety during fog events, protocol still requires more time between aircraft movements, often resulting in significant delays and...poster 2019
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Izett, J.G. (author), van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author), Baas, P. (author), van Hooft, J.A. (author), Schulte, R.B. (author)The Netherlands is characterized by highly variable land use within a small area, and a strong influence of the North Sea on national climate. Devoid of significant topography, it is an excellent location for assessing the relative influence of various factors on fog occurrence in the absence of terrain effects. Using observations from a...journal article 2019
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Schuemann, J. (author), Barbieri, S. (author), Brown, J.M.C. (author), Kyriakoulis, I. (author), Jia, X. (author), Cucinotta, F. A. (author), Schulte, R.B. (author), Cho, S. H. (author), Li, W. (author)Our understanding of radiation-induced cellular damage has greatly improved over the past few decades. Despite this progress, there are still many obstacles to fully understand how radiation interacts with biologically relevant cellular components, such as DNA, to cause observable end points such as cell killing. Damage in DNA is identified...journal article 2019