The invention discloses a goods location allocating method applied to an automatic warehousing
system of a multi-layer shuttle vehicle. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, according to the quantities of goods shelves and tunnels, generating plane
layout structure data of the
system; then analyzing the
waiting time of the shuttle vehicle executing an outbound task as well as the
idle time of a hoister; establishing an open
queuing network model for describing the
system; analyzing the relationship among the
waiting time of the shuttle vehicle, the
idle time of the hoister and the time of inbound and outbound works by a
decomposition process; determining that the higher the reaching rate of a task serviced by the shuttle vehicle is, the lower the goods location of the task is, and the goods with highest correlation are allocated at different
layers, so that multiple shuttle vehicles can provide service simultaneously; finally putting forward a principle of dividing storage zones in light of item correlation, establishing a correlation matrix of outbound items, clustering the items by an
ant colony
algorithm, and combining and arranging the storage zones in a two-dimensional plane according to the analysis result of the
queuing network model, thereby realizing the allocation of goods location. By the method, the
waiting time of the shuttle vehicle and the
idle time of the hoister can be effectively shortened, so that the rate of equipment utilization and the
throughput capacity of a distribution center are increased.