Today I read a paper titled “Assembly and Disassembly Planning by using Fuzzy Logic & Genetic Algorithms”
The abstract is:
The authors propose the implementation of hybrid Fuzzy Logic-Genetic Algorithm (FL-GA) methodology to plan the automatic assembly and disassembly sequence of products
The GA-Fuzzy Logic approach is implemented onto two levels
The first level of hybridization consists of the development of a Fuzzy controller for the parameters of an assembly or disassembly planner based on GAs
This controller acts on mutation probability and crossover rate in order to adapt their values dynamically while the algorithm runs
The second level consists of the identification of theoptimal assembly or disassembly sequence by a Fuzzy function, in order to obtain a closer control of the technological knowledge of the assembly/disassembly process
Two case studies were analyzed in order to test the efficiency of the Fuzzy-GA methodologies