Dominance of cyclic solutions and challenges in the scheduling of robotic cells

SIAM Review

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 709-721

  Dawande, Milind W ^a   Geismar, H Neil ^b   Sethi, Suresh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Discrete time systems; Robotics; Scheduling theory

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SCHEDULING; STATE SPACE METHODS; THROUGHPUT;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTIC CELLS; SCHEDULING THEORY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 28244489538     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614450444138X     Document Type: Article

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