Automated Product Disassembly

Disassembly is one of the key steps in the treatment of end-of-life products. It is to extract the parts and components from products for reusing and remanufacturing. Robotic disassembly line balancing is an important problem that enables automated disassembly to be implemented at an industrial scale. Its scheduling can be formulated as a multi-objective optimisation problem of minimising the cycle time, energy consumption, number of robots, etc.

• Robotic Disassembly Line Balancing

  • • [EJOR19] Customise an evolutionary algorithm (including encoding, population initialisation and variation) to simultaneously optimise four objectives for mixed-model disassembly line balancing with multi-robotic workstations.

    • [IJPR20] Design a simulated annealing algorithm for mixed-model disassembly lines with multi-robotic workstations under uncertainty.