A Clonal Selection Algorithm for Minimizing Distance Travel and Back Tracking of Automatic Guided Vehicles in Flexible Manufacturing System

  • Viveak Kumar Chawla
  • Arindam Kumar Chanda
  • Surjit Angra
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Abstract

The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) constitute of several programmable production work centers, material handling systems (MHSs), assembly stations and automatic storage and retrieval systems. In FMS, the automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) play a vital role in material handling operations and enhance the performance of the FMS in its overall operations. To achieve low makespan and high throughput yield in the FMS operations, it is highly imperative to integrate the production work centers schedules with the AGVs schedules. The Production schedule for work centers is generated by application of the Giffler and Thompson algorithm under four kind of priority hybrid dispatching rules. Then the clonal selection algorithm (CSA) is applied for the simultaneous scheduling to reduce backtracking as well as distance travel of AGVs within the FMS facility. The proposed procedure is computationally tested on the benchmark FMS configuration from the literature and findings from the investigations clearly indicates that the CSA yields best results in comparison of other applied methods from the literature.

Keywords

Automatic guided vehicles Clonal selection algorithm Flexible manufacturing system Priority hybrid dispatching rules 
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Acknowledgement

The author is thankful to the reviewers for their constructive comments for an earlier version of this research paper.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Viveak Kumar Chawla
    • 1
  • Arindam Kumar Chanda
    • 2
  • Surjit Angra
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Mechanical EngineeringNational Institute of TechnologyKurukshetraIndia
  2. 2.G B Pant Government Engineering CollegeNew DelhiIndia

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