Bacterial foraging optimization algorithm in robotic cells with sequence-dependent setup times

• Main Authors: Majumder, Arindam, Laha, Dipak, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; 2-machine Robotic Cell; Sequencing of Parts
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152083
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we propose an improved discrete bacterial foraging algorithm to determine the optimal sequence of parts and robot moves in order to minimize the cycle time for the 2-machine robotic cell scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times. We present a method to convert the solutio...