Deep reinforcement learning in smart manufacturing: A review and prospects

C Li, P Zheng, Y Yin, B Wang, L Wang - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
To facilitate the personalized smart manufacturing paradigm with cognitive automation
capabilities, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has attracted ever-increasing attention by …

Survey of integrated flexible job shop scheduling problems

X Li, X Guo, H Tang, R Wu, L Wang, S Pang… - Computers & Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The flexible job shop scheduling problems (FJSP) has been studied for many years, and
many different mathematical models and solution approaches have been developed. With …

Knowledge-driven two-stage memetic algorithm for energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling with machine breakdowns

C Luo, W Gong, C Lu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the multi-objective energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling
problem with machine breakdowns. To mitigate the impact of machine breakdowns, a …

[HTML][HTML] Edge computing-based real-time scheduling for digital twin flexible job shop with variable time window

J Wang, Y Liu, S Ren, C Wang, S Ma - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2023 - Elsevier
Production scheduling is the central link between enterprise production and operation
management and is also the key to realising efficient, high-quality and sustainable …

Large-scale dynamic scheduling for flexible job-shop with random arrivals of new jobs by hierarchical reinforcement learning

K Lei, P Guo, Y Wang, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the intelligent manufacturing paradigm evolves, it is urgent to design a near real-time
decision-making framework for handling the uncertainty and complexity of production line …

Flexible job shop scheduling via dual attention network-based reinforcement learning

R Wang, G Wang, J Sun, F Deng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible manufacturing has given rise to complex scheduling problems such as the flexible
job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). In FJSP, operations can be processed on multiple …

A deep reinforcement learning based algorithm for a distributed precast concrete production scheduling

Y Du, J Li - International Journal of Production Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
The environmental-friendly production demands higher manufacturing efficiency and lower
energy cost; therefore, time-of-use electricity price constraint and distributed production have …

An end-to-end deep reinforcement learning method based on graph neural network for distributed job-shop scheduling problem

JP Huang, L Gao, XY Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Distributed Job-shop Scheduling Problem (DJSP) is a hotspot in industrial and
academic fields due to its valuable application in the real-life productions. For DJSP, the …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for real-time dynamic production scheduling in a robot assembly cell

D Johnson, G Chen, Y Lu - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As industry rapidly shifts towards mass personalisation, the need for a decentralised multi-
agent system capable of dynamic flexible job shop scheduling (FJSP) is evident. Traditional …

A collaborative iterated greedy algorithm with reinforcement learning for energy-aware distributed blocking flow-shop scheduling

H Bao, Q Pan, R Ruiz, L Gao - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy-aware scheduling has attracted increasing attention mainly due to economic
benefits as well as reducing the carbon footprint at companies. In this paper, an energy …