Moore Automata for the Supervisory Control of Robotic Manufacturing Workcells

Authors:
A. Ramirez-Serrano;S. C. Zhu;B. Benhabib
Affiliations:
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G8;Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G8;Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G8. beno@mie.utoront ...
Venue:
Autonomous Robots
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The potential of flexible-manufacturing workcells (FMCs) to produce a family of parts in many possible orders of operations and choices of different machines is advantageous. Despite intensive research on the theoretical control of discrete-event systems (DESs), however, current techniques can still only be used for the supervisory control of simple cells. In this paper, a novel modeling and control synthesis technique is presented for FMCs that allow part-routing flexibility. Our proposed methodology combines Extended Moore Automata (EMA) and Controlled-Automata theories to synthesize supervisors for such FMCs.