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These constraints significantly increase the difficulty of disassembly sequence planning (DSP), as feasible sequences must satisfy multiple dependency requirements. Moreover, the large number of possible disassembly alternatives creates a vast search space, making sequence optimisation susceptible to combinatorial explosion and convergence to local optima. Therefore, effective DSP requires both robust constraint-handling mechanisms to ensure sequence feasibility and efficient optimisation strategies to identify high-quality solutions. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a disassembly sequence optimisation method that integrates a hard-constraint rule base, the linear upper confidence bound (LinUCB) algorithm, and the Bees Algorithm (BA). First, a disassembly-oriented hard-constraint rule base is developed to standardise the identification of component topological relationships and precedence constraints, thereby ensuring the generation of feasible disassembly sequences. A LinUCB-based contextual adaptive operator-selection mechanism is subsequently introduced to dynamically select neighbourhood operators according to the current search state. A weighted multi-criteria evaluation function incorporating disassembly time, payment cost, and human\u2013robot utility is integrated into the BA. Two representative EoL-EV battery case studies with different levels of structural complexity are used for validation. Across 50 independent runs, LinUCB-BA reduced the mean normalised weighted objective value by 39.01% and 28.12% relative to simplified swarm optimisation (SSO) and teaching\u2013learning-based optimisation (TLBO), respectively, in the 27-component case, and by 7.19% and 2.33% in the 16-component case. Compared with the enhanced discrete Bees Algorithm (EDBA) ablation baseline, further reductions of 1.98% and 0.43% were achieved, together with lower run-to-run variability. 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