Advances in Robust Control for Automated Manufacturing System

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 1161

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School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China
Interests: robust control; deadlock control; scheduling; rescheduling; discrete event systems

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Guest Editor
Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Guangzhou 510555, China
Interests: advanced manufacturing system; production scheduling; algorithm design; digital twin

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The construction of smart factories is a hot issue in the global manufacturing industry. German Industry 4.0 and American Industrial Internet both focus on the construction of smart factories in order to transform, upgrade and innovatively develop the manufacturing industry. Since there resource sharing in smart factories is common, deadlocks may occur without proper control, which may shortcut their performance. Thus, it is important to develop efficient methods to avoid deadlocks, while optimizing the performance of smart factories.

Although many control policies and scheduling methods have been proposed, only a few of them have been applied in smart factories due to their performance defects. This Special Issue is aimed at addresses the analysis, design and implementation of control policies and optimization algorithms in smart factories. This includes:

  • Robust control policies;
  • Scheduling algorithms;
  • Planning algorithms;
  • Routing planning algorithms;
  • Deadlock control policies;
  • Packing algorithms;
  • Performance analysis algorithms;
  • Digital twin technologies;
  • Energy saving control;
  • Maintenance decision making.

Dr. Jianchao Luo
Dr. Jun Xu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • robust control
  • scheduling
  • planning
  • automated manufacturing systems
  • discrete event systems
  • digital twin
  • deadlock control
  • packing problem
  • industrial networks
  • intelligent manufacturing

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Safe Performance of an Industrial Autonomous Ground Vehicle in the Supervisory Control Framework
by Fotis N. Koumboulis, Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis, George E. Panagiotakis and Efthimios Mavroeidis
Electronics 2023, 12(24), 5035; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12245035 - 17 Dec 2023
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A Cyberphysical system, being an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) and having diverse applications such as thematic parks and product transfer in manufacturing units, is modeled and controlled. The models of all subsystems of the AGV are provided in discrete event systems (DES) form [...] Read more.
A Cyberphysical system, being an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) and having diverse applications such as thematic parks and product transfer in manufacturing units, is modeled and controlled. The models of all subsystems of the AGV are provided in discrete event systems (DES) form following the Ramadge–Wonham (R–W) framework. The safe performance of the AGV, being the desired behavior of the system, is presented in the form of desired rules and translated into a set of regular languages. Then, the regular languages are realized as supervisory automata in the framework of Supervisory Control Theory (SCT). To ease implementation and coordination of the control architecture, the supervisors are designed to be in two-state automata forms. The controllability of the regular languages, regarding the AGV, will be proved, using the physical realizability (PR) of the synchronous product of the automata of the system and the supervisors. Also, the nonblocking property of all the controlled automata will be proven to be satisfied. Simulation of the controlled AGV will validate the proposed method. Full article
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