A Survey and Comparison of Petri Net-Based Deadlock Prevention Policies for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

  • Authors:
  • Zhi Wu Li;Meng Chu Zhou;Nai Qi Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Xidian Univ., Xi'an;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Over the last two decades, a great deal of research has been focused on solving deadlock problems in resource allocation systems such as computer communication systems, workflow systems, and flexible manufacturing systems, resulting in a wide variety of approaches. As a well-defined problem in resource allocation systems, deadlock prevention based on a Petri net formalism has received an enormous amount of attention in the literature. This paper intends to review and compare a variety of Petri net-based deadlock prevention policies reported in the literature. Their comparison is done in terms of structural complexity, behavior permissiveness, and computational complexity. This paper should facilitate engineers in choosing a suited method for their industrial application cases.