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 …

Deep reinforcement learning in production systems: a systematic literature review

M Panzer, B Bender - International Journal of Production Research, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Shortening product development cycles and fully customisable products pose major
challenges for production systems. These not only have to cope with an increased product …

Flexible job-shop scheduling via graph neural network and deep reinforcement learning

W Song, X Chen, Q Li, Z Cao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to learn priority dispatching
rules (PDRs) for solving complex scheduling problems. However, the existing works face …

Deep reinforcement learning for dynamic scheduling of a flexible job shop

R Liu, R Piplani, C Toro - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The ability to handle unpredictable dynamic events is becoming more important in pursuing
agile and flexible production scheduling. At the same time, the cyber-physical convergence …

Real-time data-driven dynamic scheduling for flexible job shop with insufficient transportation resources using hybrid deep Q network

Y Li, W Gu, M Yuan, Y Tang - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the extensive application of automated guided vehicles in manufacturing system,
production scheduling considering limited transportation resources becomes a difficult …

A reinforcement learning approach for flexible job shop scheduling problem with crane transportation and setup times

Y Du, J Li, C Li, P Duan - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has attracted research interests as it can
significantly improve the energy, cost, and time efficiency of production. As one type of …

Deep learning applications in manufacturing operations: a review of trends and ways forward

S Sahoo, S Kumar, MZ Abedin, WM Lim… - Journal of Enterprise …, 2022 - emerald.com
Deep learning applications in manufacturing operations: a review of trends and ways forward |
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Reinforcement learning for facilitating human-robot-interaction in manufacturing

H Oliff, Y Liu, M Kumar, M Williams, M Ryan - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2020 - Elsevier
For many contemporary manufacturing processes, autonomous robotic operators have
become ubiquitous. Despite this, the number of human operators within these processes …

Deep reinforcement learning for dynamic flexible job shop scheduling with random job arrival

J Chang, D Yu, Y Hu, W He, H Yu - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The production process of a smart factory is complex and dynamic. As the core of
manufacturing management, the research into the flexible job shop scheduling problem …

Deep reinforcement learning based optimization algorithm for permutation flow-shop scheduling

Z Pan, L Wang, J Wang, J Lu - IEEE Transactions on Emerging …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a new analogy paradigm of human learning process, reinforcement learning (RL) has
become an emerging topic in computational intelligence (CI). The synergy between the RL …