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1、AutomationinWarehouseDevelopmentRoelofHamberg•JacquesVerrietEditorsAutomationinWarehouseDevelopment123RoelofHambergJacquesVerrietEmbeddedSystemsInstituteEmbeddedSystemsInstituteEindhovenEindhovenTheNetherlandsTheNetherlandse-mail:roelof.hamberg@esi.n
2、le-mail:jacques.verriet@esi.nlISBN978-0-85729-967-3e-ISBN978-0-85729-968-0DOI10.1007/978-0-85729-968-0SpringerLondonDordrechtHeidelbergNewYorkBritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataAcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibraryLibrary
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7、inger.com)Foreword1Theworldmightbeflatagain,butitstilltakesconsiderabletimetoshipgoodsfromonesidetotheother.Distributioncentrestakeupacentralroleinthesupplychaintostockgoodscomingfromamultitudeofproducersandshipcustomer-specificorderstotheendclient.Inc
8、reasinglyhighdemandshavetobefulfilledinacost-efficientmanner.In2006,wetookupthechallengetotackle‘‘oneofthelastfrontiers’’inindustrialautomation:unstructureditempickingbyhumanorderpickersindistributioncentres.Atthetime,progressinvisiontechnologyandrobot