Positioning a Handshake Bay for Twin Stacking Cranes in an Automated Container Terminal Yard Block

Algorithm 4

Decoding scheme based on crane priorities.

 Inputs

 Outputs

 Steps

 Step 1 Initialize

 Step 2 Select the bays between and to form a candidate bay set . Use to index the jth element in

 Step 3 For each

  Step 3.1 Let , initialize sequence and , initialize an occupied time set . Use to index the jth element in .

  Initialize two sets and containing the task for prime crane and split task for cooperative

  Step 3.2 Sort in descending order, and insert into sequentially.

  Step 3.3 Calculate according to .

  Step 3.4 Insert the occupied time of each split task at handshake bay into

  Step 3.5 Sort in descending order, and insert into sequentially.

  Step 3.6 Calculate according to

  Step 3.7 Set

  Step 3.8 If

  End If

  Step 3.9 End For

 Step 4 Output