Intelligent Scheduling of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cells

This book focuses on the design of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cell (RFAC) with multi-robots. Its main contribution consists of a new effective strategy for scheduling RFAC in a multi-product assembly environment, in which dynamic status and multi-objective optimization problems occur. The developed strategy, which is based on a combination of advanced solution approaches such as simulation, fuzzy logic, system modeling and the Taguchi optimization method, fills an important knowledge gap in the current literature and paves the way for future research towards the goal of employing flexible assembly systems as effectively as possible despite the complexity of their scheduling.

Inhalt
Background and Research Scope.- Literature Review and Research Objectives.- Development of an Intelligent Methodology for Scheduling RFAC.- Case Study 1: Application of the Developed Methodology Using Fuzzy Logic and Simulation.- Simulation Modelling and Analysis of Dynamic Scheduling in RFAC.- Development of an Optimization Approach for Dynamic Scheduling Problems in RFAC.- Case Study 2: Application of Hybrid Fuzzy MCDM Approach to Optimize Dynamic Scheduling in RFAC.- Conclusions and Recommendations for Further Work.