Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling for Service-Based Production with Digital Twins and Deep Q-Learning

Scheduling complex production processes in real time is a challenging task because it typically takes hours to find optimal schedules. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great potential for solving complex scheduling problems. An appropriately trained RL agent can quickly respond to similar situations with near-optimal strategies to achieve good enough or even brilliant performance.
This work presents an efficient methodology to apply the deep Q-learning algorithm to int ...