Study on an Optimization of Farm Work Schedules (Part 2)

An Optimization of Work Allocation

Abstract

To find the optimum farm work schedule as a part of the optimum agricultural mechanization system, an effective method was developed. The method to find the optimum route of a farm machine that visits some fields scatterd in an area was described in the last paper. In this paper, a method to efficiently allocate the farm work for a group of machines is described. The working time and the field position were considerd as subjects of evaluation, and the best situation was supposed that each machine had a farm work with an equal working time and the shortest moving distance. Genetic Algorithm was adopted as the method to optimize the farm work schedules, and the coding method was improved to apply it to the case using more than two machines.