Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper
A crucial aspect that has to be considered in all fields and, especially, in smart farming, a rapidly developing industry, is maintenance. Due to the costs generated by both under-maintaining and over-maintaining the components of a system, a balance has to be achieved. The paper is focused on prese...
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| author | Florina Maria Șerdean Mihai Dan Șerdean Silviu-Dan Mândru |
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| description | A crucial aspect that has to be considered in all fields and, especially, in smart farming, a rapidly developing industry, is maintenance. Due to the costs generated by both under-maintaining and over-maintaining the components of a system, a balance has to be achieved. The paper is focused on presenting an optimal maintenance policy used to ensure cost minimization by determining the optimal time to make a preventive replacement of the actuators of a harvesting robotic system. First, a brief presentation of the gripper with Festo fluidic muscles used in a novel way instead of fingers is given. Then, the nature-inspired optimization algorithm, as well as the maintenance policy are described. The paper also includes the steps and the obtained results of the developed optimal maintenance policy applied for the Festo fluidic muscles. The outcome of the optimization shows that a significant reduction in the costs is obtained if one performs a preventive replacement of the actuators a few days before the lifetime provided by the manufacturer and the lifetime estimated using a Weibull distribution. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d28889d7bd2b4e5f8c6b5a82f7d0f92c2023-11-17T21:19:07ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-04-01238410310.3390/s23084103Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting GripperFlorina Maria Șerdean0Mihai Dan Șerdean1Silviu-Dan Mândru2Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Management Production, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Blvd., 400641 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFaculty of Automotive, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Blvd., 400641 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFaculty of Automotive, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Blvd., 400641 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaA crucial aspect that has to be considered in all fields and, especially, in smart farming, a rapidly developing industry, is maintenance. Due to the costs generated by both under-maintaining and over-maintaining the components of a system, a balance has to be achieved. The paper is focused on presenting an optimal maintenance policy used to ensure cost minimization by determining the optimal time to make a preventive replacement of the actuators of a harvesting robotic system. First, a brief presentation of the gripper with Festo fluidic muscles used in a novel way instead of fingers is given. Then, the nature-inspired optimization algorithm, as well as the maintenance policy are described. The paper also includes the steps and the obtained results of the developed optimal maintenance policy applied for the Festo fluidic muscles. The outcome of the optimization shows that a significant reduction in the costs is obtained if one performs a preventive replacement of the actuators a few days before the lifetime provided by the manufacturer and the lifetime estimated using a Weibull distribution.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/8/4103optimizationevolutionary algorithmmaintenance cost minimizationsmart farmingfluidic musclespreventive maintenance |
| spellingShingle | Florina Maria Șerdean Mihai Dan Șerdean Silviu-Dan Mândru Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper Sensors optimization evolutionary algorithm maintenance cost minimization smart farming fluidic muscles preventive maintenance |
| title | Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper |
| title_full | Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper |
| title_fullStr | Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper |
| title_full_unstemmed | Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper |
| title_short | Maintenance Cost Minimization for an Agricultural Harvesting Gripper |
| title_sort | maintenance cost minimization for an agricultural harvesting gripper |
| topic | optimization evolutionary algorithm maintenance cost minimization smart farming fluidic muscles preventive maintenance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/8/4103 |
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