Component and agent-based FMS modeling and controller synthesis

• Published in: IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part C, Applications and reviews Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 193 - 206
• Main Authors: Wenbiao Han, Jafari, M.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-05-2003
• Subjects: Automatic control; Computer programs; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Costs; Design engineering; Dynamics; Flexible manufacturing systems; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing processes; Software; Software design; Software systems; Synthesis; Unified Modeling Language
• ISSN: 1094-6977; 1558-2442
• DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813147

In order to reduce manufacturing control software design cycle and costs, it is imperative to reuse off-the-shelf software components, ensure system properties at design time, and automate software design process. To this end, a component and an agent-based plant modeling of three structures and systematic controller synthesis approaches are proposed under a hierarchical flexible manufacturing system (FMS) architecture. That is, the static structure is modeled using class diagrams of Unified Modeling Language (UML); the dynamic structure is modeled using Petri net (PN); the functional logic is modeled using rule sets. A plant PN controller can be derived systematically with the approach proposed in this article while the desirable system behaviors (e.g., liveness and cyclicness) will be obtained.