Paper:
Language: English:

Container Loading for Nonorthogonal Objects: Detecting Collisions

Vicenç Torra^* and Sadaaki Miyamoto^**

^*IIIA, Institut d'Investigaci'o en Intelligència Artificial - CSIC
Campus UAB s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

^**Department of Risk Engineering, School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba,
Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Received: October 10, 2007

Accepted: February 15, 2008

Keywords: container loading, nonorthogonal objects.

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.12, No.5 pp. 422-425, 2008

Abstract

This paper considers the problem of container loading. That is, the problem of locating a predefined set of objects into containers so that the number of containers is minimized. In this paper we outline our system, which includes as a distinguished aspect the possibility of considering objects that are nonorthogonal. That is, non rectangular objects are permitted to be located in the container.

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