Multi-objective disassembly line balancing via modified ant colony optimization algorithm

Author

Ding, Liping ; Chen, Wenliang ; Tan, Jianrong ; Feng, Yixiong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

426

Lastpage

430

Abstract

The present article focuses on the application of a procedure based on ant colonies to solve disassembly line balancing problem. Firstly, the problem under study is proposed with the objective functions of line idle rate, workload smoothness and disassembly cost. Subsequently, the multi-objective optimization mathematical model of disassembly line balancing is formulated based on the proposed functions of the three objectives. Then, combining characteristics of disassembly line balancing problem, an improved multi-objective ant colony algorithm based on Pareto set is developed to optimize the optimization model. Finally, a practical case is provided to illustrate the proposed model and algorithm.

Keywords

Pareto optimisation; assembling; costing; optimisation; productivity; Pareto set; ant colony optimization algorithm; disassembly cost; multiobjective disassembly line balancing; objective functions; optimization model; workload smoothness; Production; Pareto filtering; ant colony; disassembly line balancing; multi-objective optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2010 IEEE Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6437-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BICTA.2010.5645162

Filename

5645162