Flexible task assignment and assembly scheduling for human-robot collaboration cell considering uncertainty

Ziwei Jia, Shulian Xie and Weimin Zhang

International Journal of Production Research, 2025, vol. 63, issue 16, 6134-6154

Abstract: To rationally allocate production resources and manage production processes while balancing efficiency and stability. This paper investigates the optimisation of task assignment and scheduling in a collaborative environment involving multiple humans and robots for multi-product assembly. Considering the preferences of both humans and robots, diverse tasks are assigned to different operation modes, including human-only, robot-only, and collaborative human-robot. In this study, single-valued triangular neutrosophic numbers (SVTN) are used to represent the uncertainty of the HRC task schedule. The goal is to minimise the fuzzy product cycle time, by fully utilising human and robot resources while maintaining allowable idle time. An improved genetic algorithm (IGA) is proposed to optimise the human-robot task assignment and assembly sequence. It includes human or robot selection, assembly sequence as chromosome coding, and active decoding under the constraints of different HRC types. The proposed model has been tested on a case study involving the assembly of lithium battery packs to demonstrate its feasibility in improving HRC assembly efficiency. Computational results show that the model can effectively reduce cycle time and control uncertainty variance in most scenarios, with IGA and SVTN outperforming other methods.

Date: 2025
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