A review on learning to solve combinatorial optimisation problems in manufacturing

C Zhang, Y Wu, Y Ma, W Song, Z Le… - IET Collaborative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient manufacturing system is key to maintaining a healthy economy today. With the
rapid development of science and technology and the progress of human society, the …

Heuristics integrated deep reinforcement learning for online 3d bin packing

S Yang, S Song, S Chu, R Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has a wide range of industrial applications and
there is an emerging research interest in learning optimal bin packing policy and deploying …

Adjustable robust reinforcement learning for online 3d bin packing

Y Pan, Y Chen, F Lin - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Designing effective policies for the online 3D bin packing problem (3D-BPP) has been a
long-standing challenge, primarily due to the unpredictable nature of incoming box …

Neural Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems: A Comprehensive Survey with Perspectives

X Wu, D Wang, L Wen, Y Xiao, C Wu, Y Wu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although several surveys on Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) solvers specifically
designed to solve Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) have been conducted. These existing …

Artificial intelligence in smart logistics cyber-physical systems: State-of-the-arts and potential applications

Y Liu, X Tao, X Li, AW Colombo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logistics creates tremendous economic value through supporting the trading of goods
between firms and customers, thereby improving the welfare of the society. In order to …

Learning gradient fields for scalable and generalizable irregular packing

T Xue, M Wu, L Lu, H Wang, H Dong… - SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The packing problem, also known as cutting or nesting, has diverse applications in logistics,
manufacturing, layout design, and atlas generation. It involves arranging irregularly shaped …

Learning based 2D irregular shape packing

Z Yang, Z Pan, M Li, K Wu, X Gao - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2023 - dl.acm.org
2D irregular shape packing is a necessary step to arrange UV patches of a 3D model within
a texture atlas for memory-efficient appearance rendering in computer graphics. Being a …

Towards reliable robot packing system based on deep reinforcement learning

H Xiong, K Ding, W Ding, J Peng, J Xu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Object packing by a robot has a wide range of applications in the logistics industry. This task
requires the variable size items to be picked from piles one by one and then packed into …

Learning physically realizable skills for online packing of general 3D shapes

H Zhao, Z Pan, Y Yu, K Xu - ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We study the problem of learning online packing skills for irregular 3D shapes, which is
arguably the most challenging setting of bin packing problems. The goal is to consecutively …

SDF-Pack: Towards Compact Bin Packing with Signed-Distance-Field Minimization

JH Pan, KH Hui, X Gao, S Zhu, YH Liu… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic bin packing is very challenging, especially when considering practical needs such
as object variety and packing compactness. This paper presents SDF-Pack, a new approach …