This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...

A typical mission for robotic systems in environmental monitoring is the identification of dynamic processes like atmospheric dispersion by a group of mobile sensors. Due to this problem’s large-scale and highly dynamic character, an efficient cooperative sampling strategy is required. This paper presents a mathematical concept for estimating the parameters of a Gaussian puff model of the dispe...

This paper addresses the optimal design and planning of biomass-to-liquids (BTL) supply chains under economic and environmental criteria. The supply chain consists of multisite distributed-centralized BTL processing networks. The economic objective is measured by the total annualized cost, and the measure of environmental performance is the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. A bi-criterion, m...

In this article, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose randomized, distributed algorithm working under asynchronous, unreliable, directed communication. The is based on computation communication paradigm. At each round, ...

Vertical flight planning concerns assigning optimal cruise altitude and speed to a flight trajectory, such that the fuel consumption is minimized, and the arrival time constraints are satisfied. The previous work mainly focused on using mixed integer programming solvers for this task. Here we present another exact approach based on dynamic programming. Its computational effectiveness is validat...

Past applications of artificial intelligence techniques to shop floor control tasks arc reviewed. In the area of resource allocation in distributed manufacturing D’stems, the issue of resource reconfiguration is identified as a neglected problem. A game theoretic planning model suitable for use in a distributed shop floor control environment is introduced. Autonomous machine controllers consult...