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Area of Science:

  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Operations Research
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Reconfigurable assembly lines are crucial for producing diverse, customized products.
  • Optimizing scheduling in these lines is complex due to multiple, conflicting objectives.
  • Existing models often have limitations in addressing these complexities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel mathematical model for reconfigurable assembly line scheduling.
  • To propose an adaptive Q-learning-based hyper-heuristic algorithm for multi-objective optimization.
  • To simultaneously minimize reconfiguration cost, workload equalization, and logistics leveling.

Main Methods:

  • Formulation of a novel, linearized multi-objective mathematical model.
  • Development of a Q-learning-based hyper-heuristic algorithm integrating multiple metaheuristics (PSO, TLBO, WOA, GWO).
  • Implementation of a density-aware leader selection strategy with a survival-time decay factor.

Main Results:

  • The ε-constraint method successfully generated Pareto optimal solutions.
  • The proposed Q-learning hyper-heuristic algorithm demonstrated superior performance against nine other advanced algorithms.
  • Computational studies on 120 benchmark instances validated the methodology's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

  • The novel mathematical model and Q-learning hyper-heuristic offer a robust solution for reconfigurable assembly line scheduling.
  • The adaptive operator selection and advanced leader strategy enhance optimization performance.
  • This research provides a significant advancement in multi-objective optimization for complex manufacturing systems.