Abstract

The manufacturing industry is increasingly demanding flexible manufacturing and existing manufacturing methods with fixed equipment do not meet this requirement. The free spot assembly system is an ultra-flexible method that responds to this demand, enabling spatiotemporal free assembly by conveying all necessary resources with automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Although some studies have proposed free spot assembly, free spot assembly feasibility for assembling heavy objects, such as machine tools, by aligning them at high precision has not been verified. Work hour shifts, differences in worker skill levels, and cooperative work with robots have also not been considered in free spot assembly scheduling. This paper presents elemental technologies for realizing a free spot assembly system, with a scheduling method where a genetic algorithm is supported by dispatching rules with six genes. The computational results reveal the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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