Self-Organizing Manufacturing Control: An Industrial Application of Agent Technology
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
A self-organising view of manufacturing enterprises
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
RFID-based wireless manufacturing for walking-worker assembly islands with fixed-position layouts
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
RFID-enabled automation in support of factory integration
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Design of a RFID case-based resource management system for warehouse operations
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An RFID-Based distributed control system for mass customization manufacturing
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
Brief Model predictive control for max-plus-linear discrete event systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
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In networked manufacturing systems, shop floors that are geographically dispersed can coordinate autonomously to complete the fabrication and assembly of products. It is a type of self-organizing production process, in which the scheduling of those shop floors must be synchronized, in terms of time and quantity. In this paper, we propose a time-synchronizing control policy for self-organizing shop floors based on the (max, +) system theory, prove the convergence of the synchronization algorithm, and verify the effectiveness of the algorithm by numerical experiments. Besides, a method of implementing the synchronizing control system based on the radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies is also proposed briefly.