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Optimised scheduling in human–robot collaboration – a use case in the assembly of printed circuit boards

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Pages 5522-5540 | Received 29 Jun 2017, Accepted 18 Apr 2018, Published online: 09 Aug 2018

Figures & data

Figure 1. Set-up of working environment with three human workers and one robot.

Figure 1. Set-up of working environment with three human workers and one robot.

Figure 2. Matheuristic approach.

Figure 2. Matheuristic approach.

Table 1. Comparison between the heuristic (H) and the ILP model for the single board problem. Averages are taken over 10 instances.

Table 2. Comparison of the different sorting strategies in the heuristic approach for the multiple boards problem (deviation in ).

Table 3. Average idle times for the heuristic and matheuristic approach (in time units). Averages are taken over all instances and over all heuristic approaches.

Figure 3. Comparison of the different presorting strategies over all 10 instances.

Figure 3. Comparison of the different presorting strategies over all 10 instances.

Table 4. Average deviation of each matheuristic strategy to the best matheuristic strategy in and the number of instances () in which each strategy found the best solution out of all strategies.