arXiv:2505.06744cs.LGstat.ML2025-05ICML被引 1

用RL控制生产线,让机器自动调度、调人、重排任务

LineFlow: A Framework to Learn Active Control of Production Lines

  • 构建可扩展的生产线仿真框架,支持任意复杂度建模
  • 多种经典控制问题有理论最优解,便于算法对比验证
  • 发现工业级产线仍难靠现有RL解决,需改进奖励设计等

许多生产流程需要主动控制机制(如自适应路由、人员调配、重新排程)以维持最优性能。尽管强化学习(RL)在应对这些挑战方面展现出潜力,但缺乏标准化且通用的框架。本文提出LineFlow——一个可扩展、开源的Python框架,用于模拟任意复杂度的生产线,并训练RL智能体进行控制。为验证框架能力并检验其理论假设,我们对核心子问题进行了数学化建模,提供各问题的最优解作为比较基准。我们在多个场景下测试了前沿的RL算法,结果表明:在已知良好条件下,学习到的策略可逼近最优性能;但在更复杂的工业级产线中,RL仍面临显著挑战,凸显出在奖励设计、课程学习和分层控制等方面进一步研究的必要性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Many production lines require active control mechanisms, such as adaptive routing, worker reallocation, and rescheduling, to maintain optimal performance. However, designing these control systems is challenging for various reasons, and while reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in addressing these challenges, a standardized and general framework is still lacking. In this work, we introduce LineFlow, an extensible, open-source Python framework for simulating production lines of arbitrary complexity and training RL agents to control them. To demonstrate the capabilities and to validate the underlying theoretical assumptions of LineFlow, we formulate core subproblems of active line control in ways that facilitate mathematical analysis. For each problem, we provide optimal solutions for comparison. We benchmark state-of-the-art RL algorithms and show that the learned policies approach optimal performance in well-understood scenarios. However, for more complex, industrial-scale production lines, RL still faces significant challenges, highlighting the need for further research in areas such as reward shaping, curriculum learning, and hierarchical control.

强化学习生产调度工业控制

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