A Simplified Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization Algorithm for Disassembly Sequence Planning

Disassembly plays an important role in recovery and remanufacturing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). A novel Simplified Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (STLBO) algorithm is proposed for optimization of Disassembly Sequence Planning (DSP). The proposed STLBO is on the basis of a teaching-learning-based optimization method which is a new population based meta-heuristic algorithms. In the proposed STLBO algorithm, three operators are designed namely Feasible Solution Generator (FSG), Teacher Phase Operator (TPO) and Learner Phase Operator (LPO). The proposed algorithm is successfully tested against previous best known solutions for a set of public benchmarks.