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Optimal Subtask Allocation for Human and Robot Collaboration Within Hybrid Assembly System

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In human and robot collaborative hybrid assembly cell as we proposed, it is important to develop automatic subtask allocation strategy for human and robot in usage of their advantages.
We introduce a folk-joint task model that describes the sequential and parallel features and logic restriction of human and robot collaboration appropriately. To preserve a cost-effectiveness level of
task allocation, we develop a logicmathematicmethod to quantitatively describe this discrete-event systemby considering the system tradeoff between the assembly time cost and payment cost. A genetic
based revolutionary algorithm is developed for real-time and reliable subtask allocation to meet the required cost-effectiveness. This task allocation strategy is built for a human worker and collaborates
with various robot co-workers to meet the small production situation in future. The performance of proposed algorithm is experimentally studied, and the cost-effectiveness is analyzed comparatively
on an electronic assembly case.
Note to Practitioners—This paper was motivated by the critical demand within the manufacturing industry to meet the High-Mix, Low-Volume requirements for the changing consumer market demands. A fully robotic manufacturing process cannot obtain sufficient flexibility with a highly variable product line. Therefore, it must aimtowards a complimentary cost-effectiveness to improve productivity from other ways. By taking advantage of a human’s adaptability and flexibility, we can exploit the concept of a hybrid assembly system for medium sized manufacturing processes. Hybrid assembly creates a modern assembly mode where the robot works as co-worker to collaborate with the human and share the same working space and time. Hybrid assembly cell emphasizes two challenging issues to somehow improve the manufacturing productivity: (1) the way of describing and modeling human and robot collaboration and coordination, and (2) the effective task scheduling and allocation strategy for human and robot.
This research is focused on the subtask allocation method while considering the features of human and robot collaboration. The original contribution of this work is the design of an offline and online resource constraint project scheduling problem (RCPSP) algorithm for hybrid assembly systems. The resource is not only limited to the recycle resource, but also extend to the features of human and robot, such as human fatigue issues, and robot assembly failure issues. This RCPSP for hybrid assembly is to realize both sequential and parallel task scheduling between human and several robots while minimizing the assembly time and payment cost. This algorithm is fast in reaching the semi-optimal solution, therefore it can be used for both offline and online situations. The simulation results demonstrates the effectiveness of this task scheduling algorithms. We believe this study is helpful to improve
the productivity for hybrid assembly system.
Index Terms—Genetic algorithm, human and robot collaboration, hybrid assembly system, subtask allocation.

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Judul Seri

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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New York : IEEE., 2014

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, VOL. 11, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2014

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English

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1545-5955

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VOL. 11, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2014

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TEKNIK

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