the orders demanding the pieces, and autonomously release them, e.g., by tilting a tray mounted on top of each robot. In …

We consider the scheduling problem of cyclic production in a bufferless dual-gripper robot cell processing a family of … identical parts. The objective is to find an optimal sequence of robot moves so as to maximize the long-run average throughput … rate of the cell. While there has been a considerable amount of research dealing with single-gripper robot cells, there are …

robot and in collaboration. …

Constant travel-time robotic cells with a single gripper robot and with one or more machines at each processing stage … have been studied in the literature. By contrast, cells with a dual gripper robot, although more productive, have so far … gripper robotic cells that produce identical parts. The objective is to find a cyclic sequence of robot moves that minimizes …

single-gripper or dual-gripper robots. The objective is to find a cyclic sequence of robot moves that minimizes the long …

) is considered in this paper. The objective is to find a 1-unit cyclic sequence of robot moves that minimizes the long … by using a dual-gripper robot instead of a single-gripper robot are presented. It is shown that employing a dual …-gripper robot can lead to a significant gain in productivity. Operations managers can compare the resulting increase in revenue with …