5 papers
Energy-Aware Integrated Proactive Maintenance Planning and Production Scheduling
Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko
Demand-side energy management, such as the real-time pricing (RTP) program, offers manufacturers opportunities to reduce energy costs by shifting production to low-price hours. How…
CoViLLM: An Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Framework Using Large Language Models
Jiabao Zhao, Jonghan Lim, Hongliang Li +1
With increasing demand for mass customization, traditional manufacturing robots that rely on rule-based operations lack the flexibility to accommodate customized or new product var…
Bi-level Model Predictive Control for Energy-aware Integrated Product Pricing and Production Scheduling
Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko
The manufacturing industry is under growing pressure to enhance sustainability while preserving economic competitiveness. As a result, manufacturers have been trying to determine h…
Energy-Aware Model Predictive Control for Batch Manufacturing System Scheduling Under Different Electricity Pricing Strategies
Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko
Manufacturing industries are among the highest energy-consuming sectors, facing increasing pressure to reduce energy costs. This paper presents an energy-aware Model Predictive Con…
A System-Level Energy-Efficient Digital Twin Framework for Runtime Control of Batch Manufacturing Processes
Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko
The manufacturing sector has a substantial influence on worldwide energy consumption. Therefore, improving manufacturing system energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important…