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A novel hybrid-load AGV for JIT-based sustainable material handling scheduling with time window in mixed-model assembly line

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  • Binghai Zhou
  • Zhaoxu He

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Since global warming and the needs for sustainable production models, this paper focuses on a Just-in-Time (JIT)-based sustainable material handling scheduling problem (JSMHSP) with time window and capacity constraints for mixed-model assembly lines in the automobile industry. A novel Hybrid-load Automated Guided Vehicle (H-AGV) is proposed to fulfil material handling tasks between supermarkets and assembly lines. The motivation is to minimise the total line-side inventory and the total energy consumption, which corresponds to JIT and environmental objectives. Due to the NP-hard nature of the proposed scheduling problem, a Deep Q network and Non-dominated sorting-based Hyper-Heuristic (DN-HH) algorithm is presented to solve the bi-objective scheduling problem, which benefits from the synergy of the Deep Q Network (DQN) and Hyper-Heuristic (HH). In the DQN, the states and rewards are designed according to the characteristics of the scheduling problem. To improve the performance of DQN, the experience pool (EP) and the target network are presented to improve the convergence speed. Computational results reveal that the proposed DN-HH algorithm outperforms the other two compared algorithms in both solution quality and convergence speed and the performance of the H-AGV is better than that of the other two types of AGVs.

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  • Binghai Zhou & Zhaoxu He, 2023. "A novel hybrid-load AGV for JIT-based sustainable material handling scheduling with time window in mixed-model assembly line," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(3), pages 796-817, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:61:y:2023:i:3:p:796-817
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2021.2017056
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