Chengbin Chu
Université de Technologie de Troyes, École Centrale Paris, Hebei University of Technology, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Guangdong University of Technology, Université Gustave Eiffel, Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications
Papers
19
Total Citations
815
H-Index
13
About
Chengbin Chu is a leading figure in the field of production systems engineering, with a primary focus on the scheduling and control of automated manufacturing and robotic systems. His most significant contributions lie in the modeling and optimization of cluster tools for semiconductor wafer fabrication, particularly under complex constraints like wafer residency time limits and reentrant processes (e.g., atomic layer deposition). His seminal 2008 paper on Petri net methods for single-arm cluster tools, with 230 citations, provided a foundational solution to previously open schedulability problems. Chu is also renowned for his pioneering work on cyclic robot scheduling, developing polynomial-time algorithms for 2-degree cycles and multi-robot coordination in no-wait flowshops. His research, which has garnered over 700 citations, has produced efficient algorithms for NP-hard problems, including a branch-and-bound method for processing time windows and a tabu search for throughput maximization. By bridging theoretical optimization with practical manufacturing constraints, Chu's work has been instrumental in advancing the efficiency of high-tech production lines, from PCB electroplating to advanced semiconductor fabrication.
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Top Papers
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- 3A polynomial algorithm for 2-degree cyclic robot scheduling63 citations · 2002
- 4Multi-Degree Cyclic Scheduling of Two Robots in a No-Wait Flowshop51 citations · 2005
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- 7A faster polynomial algorithm for 2-cyclic robotic scheduling34 citations · 2006
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