Multiobjective scheduling optimization of AGVs in DQN algorithm-based automated container terminals
Taking the maximum utilization rate of AGV and the minimum energy consumption as the objectives,we establish a mathematical model of AGV scheduling optimization,design seven different scheduling strategies as the space of variable scheduling strategies,refine the state characteristics and the reward function of the AGV schedu-ling problem,and propose a scheduling algorithm based on the variable scheduling strategy of Deep Q-Network(DQN).Results show that compared with the GA and Q-learning algorithms,the scheduling scheme derived based on the DQN scheduling optimization method can improve the utilization rate of AGVs by 14.76%and 19.92%.For energy consumption,the average energy consumption of the scheduling scheme based on DQN is reduced by 16.88%and 10.77%,compared with that of the GA and Q-learning algorithms.By comparing with the fixed scheduling strategy,the average utilization is improved by 12.39%,and the average energy consumption is reduced by 7.58%.Moreover,the solution quality of the proposed method is higher,while the effectiveness of the proposed variable strategy is verified by comparing it with the fixed strategy.