What is Mixed Integer Linear Programming

The chapter presents an extensive review of existing literature on robotic cell scheduling. In the first part of this chapter, the classification of the robotic cell problems has been described from the machine environment, processing characteristics and objective function point of view. The next part deals with the classification of solution approaches used in robotic cell scheduling problems. Both exact and approximate approaches are discussed in this part. Later, the chapter showed the directions on which future research work of robotic cell scheduling can be carried out. Finally, the gaps found in previous research activities related to robotic cell scheduling are highlighted in the conclusion.