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The timely examination is important for the outpatients to be properly diagnosed or treated. Hospital managers are under high pressure to make advance appointments for different types of outpatients to reach their waiting time target. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model for scheduling the outpatients with one examination and two types of outpatients...
This paper is devoted to a general optimal control problem (OCP) associated with a family of nonlinear continuous-time switched systems in the presence of additional control constraints. The step wise control restrictions under consideration can usually be interpreted as a result of specific quantization procedures applied to the conventional systems inputs. We consider dynamic systems with a priori...
In a production plant for complex assembled products there could be up to several hundred of robots used for handling and joining operations. Thus, improvement in robot motions can have a huge impact on equipment utilization and energy consumption. These are two of the most important aspects of sustainability in a production system. Therefore, this paper presents an algorithm for generating efficient...
Tower cranes are commonly used at construction sites all over the world. These cranes are prone to swinging of the cable suspended payload, resulting in unwanted payload oscillations that have severe effects on the safety on the site as well as on operational speed and accuracy of the payload delivery. The nonlinear nature of the rotating crane motion makes controlling these oscillations a complex...
In this paper, we address the capacity allocation rules for a production service system consisting of one flexible manufacturing facility and a service centre. The manufacturing facility produces two-type items in the first stage and a service centre serves two-class customers in the second stage. Each customer served by the service centre depletes one unit of dedicated item produced by the manufacturing...
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