Hybrid Resource Allocation Problems - a laboratory case study

The laboratory case study to be reported in this paper has been initiated by shipyard industry. Ship-building requires a large number of welding seems to be carried out by a relatively small number of co-operating automated robots. In the regular operation mode each robot is working with the same velocity. However, real world disturbances will cause varying velocities. Therefore rescheduling should be done such that one robot is used for assisting another one. A laboratory model of such a welding plant has been built up with two co-operating multi-link robots.