Stability and performance of a simple distributed tracking policy for production control of manufacturing systems

Author

Sharifnia, Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manuf. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA

Volume

40

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1109

Lastpage

1113

Abstract

The objective of distributed tracking is to operate a production system as closely as possible to an idealized regime obtained by a continuous-flow relaxation of the actual (discrete) production control problem. The stability and performance of a large class of distributed tracking policies called “nonidling-nonexceeding (NINE)” were investigated in an earlier paper (1994). In this work we focus on the most natural tracking policy in this class and find a tight bound on its performance for a single machine and a sufficient condition for its stability for multiple-machine systems. This condition is considerably less stringent than the one available for general NINE policies

Keywords

production control; stability; continuous-flow relaxation; manufacturing systems; nonidling-nonexceeding policies; performance; production control; simple distributed tracking policy; stability; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Feedback; Guidelines; Manufacturing systems; Production control; Routing; Stability; Sufficient conditions; Target tracking; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/9.388695

Filename

388695