A New Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm to the Cyclic Multiple-Part Type Three-Machine Robotic Cell Problem

Abstract

Nowadays the level of automation in manufacturing industries has been increased dramatically. Some examples of these automation progresses are in cellular manufacturing and robotic cells. A growing body of evidence suggests that, in a wide variety of industrial settings, material handling within a cell can be accomplished very efficiently by employing robots (see Among the interrelated issues to be considered in using robotic cells are their designs, the scheduling of robot moves, and the sequencing of parts to be produced. Robotic cell problem in which robot is used as material handling system received considerable attentions. For three machine case, Crama and van de This problem is studied for nowait robotic cells too. For example Some other special cases have been studied such as: 2 www.intechopen.com defines the objective function For example www.intechopen.com