Assembly line

A taxonomy of line balancing problems and their solutionapproaches

Olga Battaïa, Alexandre Dolgui

Citations: 655 • 2012

A genetic algorithm for robotic assembly line balancing

Gregory Levitin, Jacob Rubinovitz, Boris Shnits

Citations: 222 • 2004

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots

Christian Weckenborg, Karsten Kieckhäfer, Christoph Müller, Martin Grunewald, Thomas Spengler

Citations: 162 • 2019

Balancing and scheduling assembly lines with human-robot collaboration tasks

Amir Nourmohammadi, Masood Fathi, Amos H.C. Ng

Citations: 150 • 2021

RALB – A Heuristic Algorithm for Design and Balancing of Robotic Assembly Lines

Jacob Rubinovitz, Joseph Bukchin

Citations: 140 • 1993

Introduction and configuration of a collaborative robot in an assembly task as a means to decrease occupational risks and increase efficiency in a manufacturing company

Arturo Realyvásquez-Vargas, Karina Cecilia Arredondo-Soto, Jorge Luis García-Alcaráz, Bogart Yail Márquez, Jesrael Cruz-García

Citations: 125 • 2018

AND/OR graph representation of assembly plans

Luiz S. Homem de Mello, Arthur C. Sanderson

Citations: 115 • 1990

Type II robotic assembly line balancing problem: An evolution strategies algorithm for a multi-objective model

A. Yoosefelahi, Majid Aminnayeri, Hadi Mosadegh, Hossein Davari Ardakani

Citations: 109 • 2011

Working with Walt: How a Cobot Was Developed and Inserted on an Auto Assembly Line

Ilias El Makrini, Shirley Elprama, Jan Van den Bergh, Bram Vanderborght, Albert-Jan Knevels, Charlotte Jewell, Frank Stals, Geert De Coppel, Ilse Ravyse, Johan Potargent, Jonathan Berte, Bram Diericx, Tim Waegeman, An Jacobs

Citations: 104 • 2018

Robotic U-shaped assembly line balancing using particle swarm optimization

J. Mukund Nilakantan, S. G. Ponnambalam

Citations: 96 • 2015

Multi-objective co-operative co-evolutionary algorithm for minimizing carbon footprint and maximizing line efficiency in robotic assembly line systems

J. Mukund Nilakantan, Zixiang Li, Qiuhua Tang, Peter Nielsen

Citations: 91 • 2017

A comprehensive review of robotic assembly line balancing problem

Parames Chutima

Citations: 89 • 2020

Dual arm robot in cooperation with humans for flexible assembly

Sotiris Makris, Panagiota Tsarouchi, Aleksandros-Stereos Matthaiakis, Athanasios Athanasatos, Xenofon Chatzigeorgiou, Michael Stefos, Konstantinos Giavridis, Sotiris Aivaliotis

Citations: 83 • 2017

Multi-objective migrating bird optimization algorithm for cost-oriented assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots

Zixiang Li, Mukund Nilakantan Janardhanan, Qiuhua Tang

Citations: 82 • 2021

Traveling worker assembly line (re)balancing problem: Model, reduction techniques, and real case studies

Celso Gustavo Stall Sikora, Thiago Cantos Lopes, Leandro Magatão

Citations: 81 • 2016

Robotized Assembly of a Wire Harness in a Car Production Line

Xin Jiang, Kyong-Mo Koo, Kohei Kikuchi, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama

Citations: 79 • 2011

Robot concept for scalable, flexible assembly automation: A technology study on a harmless dual-armed robot

Sönke Kock, Timothy R. Vittor, Björn Matthias, Henrik Jerregard, Mats Kallman, Ivan Lundberg, Roger Mellander, Mikael Hedelind

Citations: 76 • 2011

Metaheuristic algorithms for balancing robotic assembly lines with sequence-dependent robot setup times

Mukund Nilakantan Janardhanan, Zixiang Li, Grzegorz Bocewicz, Zbigniew Banaszak, Peter Nielsen

Citations: 72 • 2018

Balancing of robotic mixed-model two-sided assembly line with robot setup times

Mojtaba Aghajani, Reza Ghodsi, Babak Javadi

Citations: 71 • 2014

Harmonizing ergonomics and economics of assembly lines using collaborative robots and exoskeletons

Christian Weckenborg, Christian Thies, Thomas Spengler

Citations: 70 • 2022