Scheduling Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Multiple Wafer Types and Residency Time Constraints

Jipeng Wang; Hesuan Hu; Chunrong Pan; Yuan Zhou; Liang Li

doi:10.1109/JAS.2020.1003150

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Jipeng Wang, Hesuan Hu, Chunrong Pan, Yuan Zhou and Liang Li, "Scheduling Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Multiple Wafer Types and Residency Time Constraints," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 776-789, May 2020. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2020.1003150

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Jipeng Wang, Hesuan Hu, Chunrong Pan, Yuan Zhou and Liang Li, "Scheduling Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Multiple Wafer Types and Residency Time Constraints," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 776-789, May 2020. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2020.1003150

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Scheduling Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Multiple Wafer Types and Residency Time Constraints

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2020.1003150

Funds: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71361014, 61973242, 61573265, 51665018) and the Major Fundamental Research Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2017ZDJC-34)

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Jipeng Wang (S’17) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Hubei University of Technology, in 2011 and Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, in 2016, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering at the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, His research interests include Petri nets, discrete event systems, and production planning

Hesuan Hu (M’11–SM’12) received the B.S. degree in computer engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electromechanical engineering from Xidian University, in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor with Xidian University. His research interests include discrete event systems and their supervisory control techniques, Petri nets, automated manufacturing systems, multimedia streaming systems, and artificial intelligence. In the aforementioned areas, he has over 120 publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Hu was a recipient of many national and international awards, including the Franklin V. Taylor Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society in 2010, and the finalist of the Best Automation Paper from the IEEE RAS Society in 2013, 2016, and 2017. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, etc. He was on the Editorial Board of over ten international journals

Chunrong Pan (M’14–SM’19) received the M.S. degree in mechatronics engineering from Shantou University, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Guangdong University of Technology, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. From 1997 to 2011, he was with Shantou University. He joined Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, in 2011, where he is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Mechatronics Engineering. He was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, from 2013 to 2014, and the Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK, from 2018 to 2019, respectively. He has published over ten research papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include modeling, simulation, scheduling, and control of integrated manufacturing equipment

Yuan Zhou received the M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published several research papers in various journals and conferences, such as the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, the IEEE Transactions On Reliability, the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, and the International Conference on Software Engineering. His research interests include robot motion control and planning, multirobot systems, discrete event systems, Petri nets, and system modeling

Liang Li received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering at the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University. He is also pursuing the Ph.D. degree under a joint international supervision agreement with the Department of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy. His research interests include Petri nets, control and optimization of timed discrete event systems
Corresponding author: H. Hu is with the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China, and also with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore (e-mail: huhesuan@gmail.com); C. R. Pan is with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China (e-mail: crpan@jxust.edu.cn)
Received Date: 2020-02-10
Accepted Date: 2020-03-22

Available Online: 2020-04-07

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Accompanying the unceasing progress of integrated circuit manufacturing technology, the mainstream production mode of current semiconductor wafer fabrication is featured with multi-variety, small batch, and individual customization, which poses a huge challenge to the scheduling of cluster tools with single-wafer-type fabrication. Concurrent processing multiple wafer types in cluster tools, as a novel production pattern, has drawn increasing attention from industry to academia, whereas the corresponding research remains insufficient. This paper investigates the scheduling problems of dual-arm cluster tools with multiple wafer types and residency time constraints. To pursue an easy-to-implement cyclic operation under diverse flow patterns, we develop a novel robot activity strategy called multiplex swap sequence. In the light of the virtual module technology, the workloads that stem from bottleneck process steps and asymmetrical process configuration are balanced satisfactorily. Moreover, several sufficient and necessary conditions with closed-form expressions are obtained for checking the system’s schedulability. Finally, efficient algorithms with polynomial complexity are developed to find the periodic scheduling, and its practicability and availability are demonstrated by the offered illustrative examples.
- Cluster tools,
- multiple wafer types,
- scheduling,
- semiconductor manufacturing,
- wafer fabrication

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This paper investigates the scheduling problems of dual-arm cluster tools with multiple wafer types and residency time constraints.
To pursue an easy-to-implement cyclic operation under diverse flow patterns, we develop a novel robot operation strategy that reveals effectiveness for the simplicity of its enforcement and the flexibility of tackling with intricate combination of flow patterns.
According to the analysis of the distribution characteristic of the natural workload, we derive several necessary and sufficient conditions with closed-form expressions for verifying the system’s schedulability.
The methodology presented in this paper can handle diverse complex multi-type wafer flow patterns and complicated constraints, such as WRTCs, parallel PMs, and shared PMs.

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