Game Theoretic Model Based Human–Robot Collaboration in Waste MP (Multi-peripheral Imaging) Device Disassembly for Remanufacturing

Disassembly is a significant step in remanufacturing of acquired End-of-Life (EOL) multi peripheral (MP) imaging device. Most of the cases disassembly processes are done manually, which is very exhaustive and has low disassembly efficiency. Recently, robotic disassembly sequence planning (DSP) has widely been studied. It is mainly designed to improve disassembly efficiency and to minimize disassembly cost and time before executing the disassembly process. Further, Human–Robot collaboration (HRC) has gained considerable attention to handle difficulties in DSP in remanufacturing. Therefore, in this paper, DSP of EOL of MP device for Human–robot collaboration is developed by the Stackelberg game theoretic model. This game-theoretic model can be able to manage the volatile and uncertain features of human operators to obtain human-oriented HRC disassembly. In this work, firstly, the Stackelberg model is developed to generate feasible disassembly sequences of EOL of MP device. Further we have presented comparison between game theory and non-game theory based HRC approach.