Control of flexible-manufacturing workcells using extended Moore automata

Author

Ramirez, A. ; Sriskandarajah, C. ; Benhabib, B.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Comput. Integrated Manuf., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

120

Abstract

The modeling and control of flexible-manufacturing workcells (FMCs) has generally been performed in a hierarchical structure, where at the highest level they have been modeled as discrete-event systems (DESs). In this paper, a new DES control synthesis technique that combines Moore automata and controlled-automata theories to synthesize supervisors is presented. The obtained supervisors can monitor multiple pieces of information regarding the behavior of the FMC and can explicitly generate control commands issued to individual cell devices

Keywords

control system synthesis; discrete event systems; finite state machines; flexible manufacturing systems; production control; Moore automata; control synthesis; controlled-automata; discrete-event systems; finite state machine; flexible-manufacturing workcells; supervisory control; Automata; Automatic control; Automatic generation control; Computer integrated manufacturing; Control system synthesis; Discrete event systems; Educational institutions; Industrial engineering; Laboratories; Lighting control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.769941

Filename

769941