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Trajectory-Initialized Neural Double Q-Routing for Large-Scale Overhead Hoist Transport Systems

Cheng Gu, Qiusheng Zhao, Anbang Liu, Shaochong Lin +1 more

Published

Aug 31, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

12/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

40% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Aug 31, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
12/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention. We study this problem in overhead hoist transport (OHT) systems, a representative ceiling-mounted material-handling system used in semiconductor fabs. Static shortest-path routing cannot account for these time-varying traffic costs, whereas tabular Q-routing adapts online but learns each destination--node--action value independently, limiting information sharing across sparsely visited routing contexts and making startup behavior sensitive to inaccurate value estimates. We propose Neural Double Q-routing, which replaces destination-indexed tables with a shared state--action value network. The network is warm-started through return-to-go regression on mixed simulator-generated routing trajectories and then refined online using Double-Q updates, local congestion correction, and event-stratified structured replay. Across nine matched fleet-size--arrival-rate settings with 100, 150, and 200 OHTs, the proposed framework reduces mean completion time relative to tabular Double Q-routing by $0.8\%$--$8.8\%$. It achieves the lowest mean completion time among all compared methods in the six 150- and 200-OHT settings, whereas Dijkstra remains best in the three 100-OHT settings. Completed-task counts remain within $1\%$ of tabular Double Q-routing in eight of nine settings, and 95th-percentile completion time decreases in eight settings. In two matched startup scenarios, offline initialization increases the number of completed tasks by up to $23\%$ and reduces tail completion time by up to $15\%$.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Simulation Env

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Trajectory (inferred)
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Simulation Env
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention.
  • We study this problem in overhead hoist transport (OHT) systems, a representative ceiling-mounted material-handling system used in semiconductor fabs.
  • Static shortest-path routing cannot account for these time-varying traffic costs, whereas tabular Q-routing adapts online but learns each destination--node--action value independently, limiting information sharing across sparsely visited routing contexts and making startup behavior sensitive to inaccurate value estimates.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention.
  • We propose Neural Double Q-routing, which replaces destination-indexed tables with a shared state--action value network.

Why it matters for eval

  • Large-scale industrial robot fleets share constrained physical infrastructure, making vehicle travel times dependent on safety separation, intersection access, downstream blocking, and station contention.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Simulation Env

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.