A review of the high-mix, low-volume manufacturing industry

ZL Gan, SN Musa, HJ Yap - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) industry has seen growth in the need for product
customisation with research to increase manufacturers' flexibility for the variation in market …

Dual-objective mixed integer linear program and memetic algorithm for an industrial group scheduling problem

Z Zhao, S Liu, MC Zhou… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Group scheduling problems have attracted much attention owing to their many practical
applications. This work proposes a new bi-objective serial-batch group scheduling problem …

Optimal application deployment in resource constrained distributed edges

S Deng, Z **ang, J Taheri… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dramatically increasing of mobile applications make it convenient for users to complete
complex tasks on their mobile devices. However, the latency brought by unstable wireless …

Decomposition method for new single-machine scheduling problems from steel production systems

Z Zhao, S Liu, MC Zhou, X Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Production scheduling is a crucial task in modern steel plants. The scheduling of a wire rod
and bar rolling process is challenging in many steel plants, which has a direct impact on …

Robot-enabled construction assembly with automated sequence planning based on ChatGPT: RoboGPT

H You, Y Ye, T Zhou, Q Zhu, J Du - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Robot-based assembly in construction has emerged as a promising solution to address
numerous challenges such as increasing costs, labor shortages, and the demand for safe …

Event-triggered adaptive critic control design for discrete-time constrained nonlinear systems

M Ha, D Wang, D Liu - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, through event-triggered approach, the constrained near-optimal control
problem for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems is investigated and solved by heuristic …

Approach to integrated scheduling problems considering optimal number of automated guided vehicles and conflict-free routing in flexible manufacturing systems

X Lyu, Y Song, C He, Q Lei, W Guo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Usually, machine and automated guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling are studied
simultaneously. However, previous studies often used a fixed number of AGVs or did not …

Energy optimization of large-scale AGV systems

S Riazi, K Bengtsson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an efficient optimization method, which addresses several performance criteria,
such as makespan, maximum lateness, and the sum of tardiness for an automated guided …

Robust deadlock avoidance and control of automated manufacturing systems with assembly operations using Petri nets

N Du, H Hu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlock resolution has been an important research topic in the field of automated
manufacturing systems (AMSs). Researchers generally assume that AMS resources never …

Artificial-molecule-based chemical reaction optimization for flow shop scheduling problem with deteriorating and learning effects

Y Fu, M Zhou, X Guo, L Qi - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 4.0 is widely accepted to guide a novel and promising production paradigm where
many advanced intelligent machines and latest technologies are utilized. The self …