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Product disassembly planning and task allocation based on human and robot collaboration

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Disassembly is a main phase of maintenance, remanufacturing and the end of life. It is always accomplished by human or robot. Manual disassembly has low effectiveness and high work cost whereas robotic disassembly is not sufficiently flexible to operate difficult operations. The use of robots in handling and assembling of parts becomes a necessity. Disassembly operations by simultaneously human and robot can enhance the productivity and reduce the product cost. This paper presents an interactive disassembly planning (DP) approach with human and robot collaboration (HRC). The proposed approach generates optimal DP strategies with human and robots tasks allocations. Moreover, based on an industrial manufacturing database and a set of relationship matrices, the proposed approach estimates the total disassembly time of the generated DP with respect of the minimum change of dismantling directions and tools. To highlight the added value of the proposed approach, an industrial case study, chosen from the literature, is treated. To demonstrate the reduction of disassembly time and product cost, a comparative study between the DP given by a sequential approach and the proposed one which integrates both, HRC and parallel disassembly is done.

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Belhadj, I., Aicha, M. & Aifaoui, N. Product disassembly planning and task allocation based on human and robot collaboration. Int J Interact Des Manuf 16, 803–819 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-022-00908-y

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