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Affiliation of Author(s):机电学院

Title of Paper:A hormone regulation-based approach for distributed and on-line scheduling of machines and automated guided vehicles

Journal:PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART B-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE

Key Words:Manufacturing system automated guided vehicle hormone-regulation mechanism on-line scheduling allocation mechanism

Abstract:With the continuous innovation of technology, automated guided vehicles are playing an increasingly important role on manufacturing systems. Both the scheduling of operations on machines as well as the scheduling of automated guided vehicles are essential factors contributing to the efficiency of the overall manufacturing systems. In this article, a hormone regulation-based approach for on-line scheduling of machines and automated guided vehicles within a distributed system is proposed. In a real-time environment, the proposed approach assigns emergent tasks and generates feasible schedules implementing a task allocation approach based on hormonal regulation mechanism. This approach is tested on two scheduling problems in literatures. The results from the evaluation show that the proposed approach improves the scheduling quality compared with state-of-the-art on-line and off-line approaches.

ISSN No.:0954-4054

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2018-01-01

Co-author:Zheng, Kun,Giret, Adriana,Salido, Miguel A.,Sang, Zelei

Correspondence Author:tdb