A great deal of work has been done to analyze the problem of robot move sequencing and part scheduling in robotic … of robotic cells are differentiated from one another by certain characteristics, including robot type, robot travel … parts. A cycle is specified by a repeatable sequence of robot moves designed to transfer a set of parts between the machines …

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 …

dual-gripper switch time is less than twice the intermachine robot movement time. A computational study demonstrates that … practical insights that are useful in maximizing productivity of any cell configuration with either type of robot …

or more robot-served machines. The robot can have single or dual gripper. The cycle time is the time to produce a part in … sequence of moves performed by the robot. The processing constraints define the cell to be a flowshop. The objective is the … of this paper is to study the problem of scheduling robot moves in dual gripper robot cells functioning in a bufferless …

state space required to analyze this problem and show that cyclic schedules which repeat a fixed sequence of robot moves …

This article assesses the benefits of implementing a dual-arm robot in a flow shop manufacturing cell. Such a robot has … required to find sequences of robot actions that maximize a cell’s throughput. For cells processing identical parts, optimal …