University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-2020 GridHub: a grid-based, high-density material handling system. Gang Hao University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the Industrial Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Hao, Gang, "GridHub: a grid-based, high-density material handling system." (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3408. Retrieved from https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/3408 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. GRIDHUB: A GRID-BASED, HIGH-DENSITY MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM By Gang Hao M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011 B.Eng., Nanjing Forestry University, 2008 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the J. B. Speed School of Engineering of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering Department of Industrial Engineering University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky May 2020 GRIDHUB: A GRID-BASED, HIGH-DENSITY MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM By Gang Hao M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011 B.Eng., Nanjing Forestry University, 2008 A Dissertation Approved On August 15th, 2019 by the following Dissertation Committee: Professor Kevin R. Gue, Dissertation Director Professor Lihui Bai Professor Monica Gentili Professor Dan Popa ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation is dedicated to my family.