Due to the development of advanced manufacturing technology and the introduction of Smart Manufacturing notion in the field of modern industrial production, welding flexible manufacturing using robot technology has b...Due to the development of advanced manufacturing technology and the introduction of Smart Manufacturing notion in the field of modern industrial production, welding flexible manufacturing using robot technology has become the inevitable developing direction on welding automation. Based on a new intelligent arc welding flexible manufacturing cell (WFMC), its system structure and control policies are studied in this paper. Aiming at the different information flows among every subsystem and central monitoring computer in this WFMC, Petri net theory is introduced into the process of welding manufacturing. A discrete control model of WFMC has been constructed, in which the system's status is regarded as place and the control process is regarded as transition. Moreover, grounded on automation Petri net principle, the judging and utilizing of information obtained from welding sensors are imported into Petri net structure, which extends the traditional Petri net concepts. The control model and policies researched in this paper have established foundation for further intelligent real time control on welding flexible manufacturing cell and system.展开更多
Livelocks, like deadlocks, can result in serious results in running process of flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs). Current deadlock control policies(DCPs) based on mixed integer programming(MIP) cannot detect siphon...Livelocks, like deadlocks, can result in serious results in running process of flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs). Current deadlock control policies(DCPs) based on mixed integer programming(MIP) cannot detect siphons that cause and cope with livelocks in Petri nets. This study proposes a revised mixed integer programming(RMIP) method to directly solve the new smart siphons(NSSs) associated with livelocks in a system of sequential systems with shared resources(S^4 R), a typical subclass of generalized Petri net models. Accordingly,the solved NSSs are max'-controlled by adding the corresponding control places(CPs). As a result, an original S^4 R system with livelocks can be converted into the live controlled Petri net system. The related theoretical analysis and an example are given to demonstrate the proposed RMIP and the corresponding control algorithm(CA).展开更多
基金SupportedbyNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina (No .5 96 35 16 0 )Pre ResearchingKeyProjectoNationalDefenseTechnology
文摘Due to the development of advanced manufacturing technology and the introduction of Smart Manufacturing notion in the field of modern industrial production, welding flexible manufacturing using robot technology has become the inevitable developing direction on welding automation. Based on a new intelligent arc welding flexible manufacturing cell (WFMC), its system structure and control policies are studied in this paper. Aiming at the different information flows among every subsystem and central monitoring computer in this WFMC, Petri net theory is introduced into the process of welding manufacturing. A discrete control model of WFMC has been constructed, in which the system's status is regarded as place and the control process is regarded as transition. Moreover, grounded on automation Petri net principle, the judging and utilizing of information obtained from welding sensors are imported into Petri net structure, which extends the traditional Petri net concepts. The control model and policies researched in this paper have established foundation for further intelligent real time control on welding flexible manufacturing cell and system.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61364004)the Chinese Visiting Scholars to Study Overseas Program supported by China Scholarship Council Foundation(No.[2014]5049,201408625045)+1 种基金the Doctoral Research Funds of Lanzhou University of Technology(No.04-237)the Alumni Foundation of Civil Engineering 77,Lanzhou University of Technology(No.TM-QK-1301)
文摘Livelocks, like deadlocks, can result in serious results in running process of flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs). Current deadlock control policies(DCPs) based on mixed integer programming(MIP) cannot detect siphons that cause and cope with livelocks in Petri nets. This study proposes a revised mixed integer programming(RMIP) method to directly solve the new smart siphons(NSSs) associated with livelocks in a system of sequential systems with shared resources(S^4 R), a typical subclass of generalized Petri net models. Accordingly,the solved NSSs are max'-controlled by adding the corresponding control places(CPs). As a result, an original S^4 R system with livelocks can be converted into the live controlled Petri net system. The related theoretical analysis and an example are given to demonstrate the proposed RMIP and the corresponding control algorithm(CA).