Applied supervisory control for a flexible manufacturing system
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چکیده
This paper presents a case study in the design and implementation of a discrete event system (DES) of real-world complexity. Our DES plant is a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) laboratory model that consists of 29 interacting components and is controlled via 107 digital signals. We apply a hierarchical and decentralised supervisor design method from earlier work and implement the resulting supervisors to control the physical plant. Both, design and implementation are supported by the open-source software tool libFAUDES that is developed at our institute. The paper includes a detailed discussion on the practical tasks required for the implementation, and thereby demonstrates that modern synthesis methods from DES theory can be applied to real-world scenarios.
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