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

fYear

1992

fDate

1992

Firstpage

1665

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1992., Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0872-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1992.371146

Filename

371146