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Fotis N. Koumboulis
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward Design and Implementation of Intelligent Manufacturing in Semiconductor Production Industry with Wafer Chamber Faults
An intelligent manufacturing system, in semiconductor industry, is analyzed. The model of the system in the presence of faults related to the wafer chambers is derived in discrete event system form. An embedde...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Reconfigurable Supervisory Control Algorithm for the Parametric Model of Multi-elevator Systems in Mines
In the present paper, the parametric model of a multi-elevator system, for use in mines, will be presented using discrete event systems. The total multi-elevator system will be modeled as the synchronous produ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributed Supervisor Control for a Large‐Scale Waterway Lock System
In the present paper, a cyber-physical system, namely the WaterWay Lock (Lock III) in Tilburg, the Netherlands, will be studied. The discrete event model of the system, in the Ramadge Wonham framework, will be...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Mixed Analytic/Metaheuristic Dual Stage Control Scheme Toward I/O Decoupling for a Differential Drive Mobile Robot
Here, a dual stage PI-PID controller is designed toward independent control of the velocity and orientation angle of a differential drive mobile robot. The control scheme uses real-time measurements of the kin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling and Supervisor Design for a Baggage Handling System
In the present paper, the modeling of a baggage handling system for airports is presented. The model of the system is derived by develo** the models of its subsystems in the form of finite deterministic auto...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of a 3D Printed Robotic Vision System Connected to an Ontology-Based Editor for Manuscript Transcription and Annotation
Design and implementation of a robotic vision system capable of efficiently manuscript scanning and recognition. To scan manuscripts and recognize manuscript components, the robotic system aims at using cuttin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fault Tolerance of a Circular Manufacturing System in the Framework of Supervisory Control Theory
A circular manufacturing system will be studied in the presence of sensor/actuator faults. The models of the subsystems of the plant in the presence of faults will be developed in the form of finite determinis...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supervisory Control of Multiple Product Flow for a Flexible Manufacturing System
A general parametric modeling and control framework of multi-product manufacturing systems is proposed. The manufacturing system is of a general and parametric form covering a wide range of manufacturing archi...
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Article
Open AccessErratum to: Modular supervisory control for multi-floor manufacturing processes
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Open AccessModular supervisory control for multi-floor manufacturing processes
Due to space availability limitations and high land costs, there is an increasing development of multi-floor manufacturing (MFM) systems in urban and industrial areas. The problem of coordination in a multi-fl...
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Article
Switching Wireless Control for Longitudinal Quadrotor Maneuvers
To improve the maneuverability of remotely guided quadrotors in longitudinal motion, the design goal of independent control of the horizontal and the vertical velocity, is satisfied. For the sake of the commun...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Common Control Design of Robotic Manipulators Carrying Different Loads
The problem of controlling robot manipulators of six joints carrying different objects (loads) is studied using a nonlinear controller with nonlinear static feedback and a nonlinear proportional and derivative...
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Chapter
A Control Scheme Towards Accurate Firing While Moving for a Mobile Robotic Weapon System with Delayed Resonators
In the present paper a mobile robotic weapon system is considered. The system comprises of a ground vehicle equipped with a robotic manipulator carrying a gun. The goal is to perform accurate firing while movi...
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Article
Dynamic disturbance rejection controllers for neutral time delay systems with application to a central heating system
In the present paper the problem of disturbance rejection of single input-single output neutral time delay systems with multiple measurable disturbances is solved via dynamic controllers. In particular, the ge...
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Efficient robust supervisors for discrete event systems
This paper is a sequel to a previous publication by the same authors, in which an efficient modular solution to a robust supervisory control problem for discrete event systems modeled by finite automata with p...
