Routing Agents at the Nodes of an Automatic Baggage Conveyor System for Hub Airport

Location: Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund, Germany

Baggage conveyor systems at airports often carry up to 10,000 items of baggage per hour. Nevertheless, the cases have to be loaded onto the right airliner at the right time. Intelligent ‘routing agents’ steer the baggage...