Youyi Bi

Apr 7, 2024 | mdpi.com | Shuo Liu |Bohan Feng |Dan Yu |Youyi Bi

1. IntroductionA smart factory usually has a series of machining centers, industrial robots, storage racks, and mobile robots. The mobile robots can assist the industrial robots and machining centers with complex manufacturing jobs by delivering raw materials and parts and inspecting the status of production lines [1,2,3]. As the number of robots and tasks grows, the scheduling and planning of these robots can become complicated.