… Throughput optimization problems for robotic cells are not at all like the classical machine
… lead to significant cost savings for factories using robotic cells in their production processes. …

… In Section 4, we show that in the class of one-unit cyclic solutions a robotic cell with input
and output buffers at each machine cannot have higher throughput than one with only output …

… robot's grippers. We study the problem of scheduling operations in a dual-gripper robotic cell
… we will see later (Section 3), the classical flow shop is a special case of such a robotic cell. …

… is dedicated to one workpiece during the entire processing time, which the authors called
the work cycle time; hence, the overall throughput may be limited because there is no …

… robotic cell during a prototyping exercise, (ii) a lower bound on the throughput of a robotic
cell … , and (iii) a benchmark throughput level (for comparison purposes) for robotic cells whose …

… By contrast, cells with a dual‐gripper robot, although more … in dual‐gripper robotic cells that
have the machines … cyclic sequence of robot moves that maximizes the throughput. We show …

… The majority of studies in robotic cell scheduling have addressed cells in which the robot …
This paper studies the problem of scheduling robot moves in dual gripper robot cells …

… or throughput. The RCPCPT is considered as a generalization of the classic robotic cell …
In particular, Hall and Sriskandarajah [15] prove that the robotic cell problem is strongly NP-…

… Cell operations and throughput measurement For a complete description of the movement of
parts in a robotic cell, we … It follows that the standard measure of throughput for robotic cells, …

… How to achieve the maximum throughput in a robotic cell improvement in throughput, is …
optimality in cell layout and optimistic robot come from robotic cell throughput optimiza terms of …