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Petri Net-Based Heuristic Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing
A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) can manufacture multiple types of products with relatively small lot sizes, using various resources such as robots and multi-purpose machines. While the increased flexibil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The application of Petri nets to the modeling, analysis and control of intelligent urban traffic networks
This paper focuses on the development of Petri net models and tools for the control and performance analysis of signalized traffic intersections and networks of connected intersections. The potential for Petri...
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Article
Integration of Petri nets and moment generating function approaches for system performance evaluation
This article integrates arbitrary stochastic Petri nets (ASPN) and moment generating function approaches for performance evaluation of discrete event dynamic systems (DEDS). These systems include computer-inte...
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Book
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Petri Nets and Manufacturing Systems
The purpose of this chapter is to define Petri nets and to introduce Petri net modeling in the context of manufacturing systems. The chapter begins with the formal definition of Petri nets and the properties o...
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Illustration of Hybrid Synthesis
This automated manufacturing system consists of the following major components: two entries, two exits, five machines, two buffers, four robots, and a two AGV system as shown in Figure 6.1.
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Augmentation of Petri Nets
The research into augmentation methods of Petri nets is motivated by the desire to improve control coding for error handling in automated systems [Zhou 89a]. In implemented automated manufacturing workstations...
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Introduction
Event-driven systems are of increasing importance in today’s world because they are growing in number, size, and sophistication. It is therefore imperative to have systematic design methodologies in order to a...
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Parallel Mutual Exclusions
Applications of Petri net theory have been extended to various aspects of manufacturing since its introduction to this domain in the 1970’s. Among them are specification, validation, performance analysis, and ...
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Discrete Event Control of FMS
This chapter presents the synthesis and implementation of a Petri net (PN) model used for the discrete-event control of a moderately sized flexible manufacturing system (FMS). This system includes machining, a...
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GRAFCET and Petri Nets in Manufacturing
The application of control theory into the domains of manufacturing, robotics, computer and communication networks, and so on, has led to the creation of a new discipline, known as discrete event systems (DES) [1...
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Sequential Mutual Exclusion
Our study of Petri net synthesis for manufacturing systems begins with the classification of places in a Petri net model. The modeling approach in which places are used to model operation processes and the ava...
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Hybrid Synthesis of Petri Nets
For linear, continuous, or synchronous discrete systems, there exist methodologies for modeling and control system design, which, if applied correctly, will provide desirable performance properties [Zhou 92a]....
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Petri Nets: Past, Present and Future
Numerous papers, reports, and books on Petri nets and their applications in various areas have been published since Petri nets were first conceived in 1962. This chapter first attempts to give an overview of P...
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Analysis Tools for Evaluating the Effects of Land-Use and Fiscal Control Policies in Develo** Communities
This paper discusses research in develo** new mathematical models to aid planners and elected officials at the county and township level in planning for rational suburban growth over the next ten to fifteen ...
