Affiliation:
1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of High Performance Ship Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 420100, China
Abstract
The panel block is a quite important “intermediate product” in the shipbuilding process. However, the assembly efficiency of the panel block assembly line is not high. Therefore, rational scheduling optimization is of great significance for improving shipbuilding efficiency. Currently, the processing sequence of the panel blocks in the panel block assembly line is mainly determined using heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms. However, these algorithms have limitations, such as small problem-solving capacity and low computational efficiency. To address these issues, this study proposes an end-to-end approach based on deep reinforcement learning to solve the scheduling problem of the ship’s panel block assembly line. First, a Markov decision model is established, and a disjunctive graph is creatively used to represent the current scheduling status of the panel block assembly line. Then, a policy function based on a graph isomorphism network is designed to extract information from the disjunctive graph’s state and train it using Proximal Policy Optimization algorithms. To validate the effectiveness of our method, tests on both real shipbuilding data and publicly available benchmark datasets are conducted. We compared our proposed end-to-end deep reinforcement learning algorithm with heuristic algorithms, metaheuristic algorithms, and the unimproved reinforcement learning algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms other baseline methods in terms of model performance and computation time. Moreover, our model exhibits strong generalization capabilities for larger instances.
Funder
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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