The laser-plotter beam routing problem

G Ghiani and G Improta
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G Ghiani: École des Hautes Études Commerciales
G Improta: Università ‘Federico II’

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 8, 945-951

Abstract: Abstract Laser-plotters are used in the manufacturing industry to draw trademarks and decorations on the metallic surfaces of some products and devices. Given a pattern, the laser-plotter beam routing problem amounts to routing a laser-plotter beam in such a way that the total drawing time is minimised and some additional requirements are met. The aim of this paper is to model and solve the laser-plotter beam routing problem as a constrained Arc Routing Problem. Computational results on test problems with up to 225 vertices are reported.

Keywords: arc routing; rural postman problem; production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601161

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