Title :
Modeling, analysis and simulation of a materials handling system with extended Petri nets
Author :
Ramaswamy, Srini ; Valavanis, K.P.
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Robotic Syst. Lab., Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
Abstract :
The authors model, analyze and simulate a materials handling system with diagnostic intelligence capabilities using extended Petri nets (EPNs). The important modeled system properties of safeness, liveness, and reversibility, which guarantee that the system operates in a stable, deadlock-free, and cyclic manner, are verified and illustrated through the simulation results, obtained through an EPN-based software package. A real system, the USL materials handling system, modified to function as an intelligent materials handling system with online adaptation capabilities, is used as a case study
Keywords :
Petri nets; computerised materials handling; diagnostic expert systems; software packages; EPN-based software package; deadlock-free operation; diagnostic intelligence capabilities; extended Petri nets; liveness; materials handling system; reversibility; safeness; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Materials handling; Petri nets; Software packages; Switches; System recovery;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1992., Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0872-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1992.371146
