The Methods of Robotic Manufacturing Cell Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling
Aiming at the robotic manufacturing cell integrated process planning and scheduling(RMC-IPPS)problem,con-sidering the flexibility of features,processing and machines,a multi-level linear coding method is proposed.By using this method,the solution of RMC-IPSS problem can be expressed with simple data structure effectively,meanwhile,the two prob-lems can be solved integrally.At the same time,for the sake of solving the transport problem of semi-finished products in the cell,the robots scheduling strategy based on the greedy algorithm is designed.In this strategy,each operation adopts the cur-rent optimal state to avoid the delay caused by the carrying works of production cycles.Finally,in order to increase the diversi-ty of population,an improved NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm with external archives(M-NSGA-Ⅱ)is designed.The main idea of this algorithm is searching the noninferior solutions in the external archives.Furthermore,the approach is tested on benchmark in-stances and practical data instances.Compared with the standard NSGA-Ⅱalgorithm,the coverage of the M-NSGA-Ⅱalgo-rithm is 100%;moreover,the M-NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm has a higher coverage than others in the references.
integrated process planning and schedulingrobotic manufacturing cellsmulti-level linear coding methodNS-GA-Ⅱ