Abstract
The paper deals with the scheduling of a robotic cell in which jobs are processed on two tandem machines. The job transportation between the machines is done by a transportation robot. The robotic cell has limitations on the intermediate space between the machines for storing the work-in-process. What complicates the scheduling problem is that the loading/unloading operation times are non-negligible. Given the total number of operations n, an optimal O(n log n)-time algorithm is proposed together with the proof of optimality.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 217-232 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Annals of Operations Research |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Scheduling
- optimization
- robotic cell
- tandem machines