The paper presents some considerations and a concept regarding on using of distributed intelligent agents in holonic control of adaptive manufacturing systems perspective. Unlike the classical manufacturing control systems, holonic manufacturing control systems provide a high agility and adaptability to the environment changes, and robustness against the occurrence of disturbances, bringing the...

Multirobot systems (MRSs) are capable of solving task complexity, increasing performance in terms of maximizing spatial/ temporal/radio coverage or minimizing mission completion time. They are also more reliable than single-robot systems as robustness is increased through redundancy. Many applications such as rescue, reconnaissance, and surveillance and communication relaying require the MRS to...

This paper presents the idea of creating cells while reducing part-level sequence-dependent setup time in general cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). Setup time reduction in CMS has gained modest attention in the literature. This could be attributed to the fact that the fundamental problem in cell formation in CMS has been mainly related to material handling and machine utilization while setu...

Cellular manufacturing is a promising approach for grouping eeciency in manufacturing systems. Although this problem has been extensively studied in the literature, very few authors have proposed exact methods. The basic cellular manufacturing problem consists in deening cells which lead to the minimum number of bottleneck elements. In this paper, we consider a new formulation of the cellular m...

In this study, we highlight the impact of advanced new technical equipment on work design issues in a cellular manufacturing (CM) production environment. A large number of studies deal with the influence of technical systems on work design (e.g. Benders, 1993; McLoughin and Clark, 1994) or deal with work design issues in cellular manufacturing systems (e.g. Huber and Brown, 1991). However, as f...

  A fuzzy goal programming-based approach is used to solve a proposed multi-objective linear programming model and simultaneously handle two important problems in cellular manufacturing systems, viz. cell formation and layout design. Considerations of intra-cell layout, the intra-cell material handling can be calculated exactly. The advantages of the proposed model are considering machining cos...

We analyze spectral efficiency of a dynamic time division duplex system in a fixed wireless cellular network. Conventionally, spectral efficiency has been analyzed under static and fully-loaded conditions. In this paper, we investigate how asymmetric and dynamic traffic affects spectral efficiency of TDD systems. Recently, dynamic TDD (D-TDD) has gained much attention as an efficient duplex sch...