Andreas Rücker
PhD Student
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
Jona Rief
Student
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
Johannes Fottner
Full Professor
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
PhD Student
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
Jona Rief
Student
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
Johannes Fottner
Full Professor
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics; Technical University of Munich
An investigation of mean energy demand, performance and reference cycles for stacker cranes
Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS-RS) are commonly used in intralogistic facilities and are often operated by stacker cranes. These
stacker cranes are used in high-bay warehouses to move small load
carriers, pallets and special load carriers. This paper presents an
approach for the determination of the mean energy demand of stacker
cranes, using a reference cycle. The examanition of the reference cycles is based on a large scale simulation experiment with randomly generated stacker crane and rack configurations and operation tasks. The results permitted an analysis of the correlations between various paramters e.g. energy demand and performance of stacker cranes. Subsequently, three different reference cycles which allow an easy and fast calculation of the mean energy demand are developed and eveluated.
