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IMPULSO


Overview

IMPULSO - Integrated Multimodal Platform for Urban and extra urban Logistic System Optimization - aims to develop new technologies and capabilities in order to improve the management and transport of products, based on cooperation models while ensuring highest levels of security. It offers an integrated system for goods management within the logistic districts, for their storage in special metropolitan distribution centres and finally, for distribution within the cities.


Our contributions

  • YMC - Yard Management Component
One of the issues addressed by the IMPULSO project concerns the evaluation of efficient resources employment to be adopted for the handling of goods inside a logistic district (a large area composed of several warehouses where the freight forwarders deliver their container). In the specific case,  we have developed a multi agent simulation framework in order to study problems, constraints and performance issues of the truck unload operations. We aim to optimize the suitable number of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) used for unloading containers arrived to the warehouse. This is a critical issue since an AGV is a costly resource and an augment in number does not necessarily correspond to an improved unloading speed. The experiment performed with our simulated environment allows us also to evaluate the impact of other elements to the performance. For further simulation results see here.
See simulation movie.

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  • Optimal Routing
A natural problem that arises when an organization delivers goods is to provide the service efficiently. This is strongly affected by the choice of vehicles paths and by the scheduling of the operations. We have addressed these problems in collaborations with ITIA Institute of Rome developing a complete tool for optimal routing calculation and paths visualization.

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  •  SCC - A componment for Containers monitoring
 SCC is a component of the Impulso system able to monitor loading/unloading of containers by cranes.
It provides an advanced tool for the control of  operations on containers and it is able to ensure greater efficiency and reliability by limiting the risks associated with falls or accidental detachment of the load hanging on the cranes.
It is a solution that ensure traceability of people and containers  using wireless technologies (GPS - GPRS - UMTS).




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