Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers

Automated manufacturing systems require effective supervisory control mechanisms to ensure their efficient operation and prevent fatal errors. Majority of the deadlock supervisory control policies for automated manufacturing systems are formulated based on the presupposition that the systems&#x2...

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Main Authors: Umar Suleiman Abubakar, Ahmad Bala Alhassan, Gridsada Phanomchoeng
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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Ahmad Bala Alhassan
Gridsada Phanomchoeng
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description Automated manufacturing systems require effective supervisory control mechanisms to ensure their efficient operation and prevent fatal errors. Majority of the deadlock supervisory control policies for automated manufacturing systems are formulated based on the presupposition that the systems’ resources are all reliable. However, in actuality systems’ resources experience failure. Deadlocks and blockages could still occur in a system with failure-prone resources to which a supervisory controller is deployed if a failure-prone resource in the system fails. Extra buffers (redundant buffers) are usually used on production floors to store work-in-process parts in order to prevent deadlocks or blockages caused by the failure of failure-prone resources. However, additional buffers signify extra costs to the enterprise. To this end, this paper presents a robust supervisory control framework for automated manufacturing systems that utilizes minimum amount of decentralized buffer units and switch controllers, viz., switch-buffer controllers. The policy combines control places computed to prevent deadlocks in the system and switch-buffer controllers to prevent deadlocks/blockages in the event of failure-prone resource failure. Both the plant and the proposed supervisory controller are modeled using Petri nets. Examples are used to validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Furthermore, the results, compared with some existing techniques, indicate that the proposed technique has more advantages over them.
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spelling doaj-art-1cd4af3ae9f142ff99352a94d135aefd2025-08-20T02:33:48ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011217370017371310.1109/ACCESS.2024.350292010758634Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer ControllersUmar Suleiman Abubakar0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4697-6108Ahmad Bala Alhassan1Gridsada Phanomchoeng2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-0992Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics, Nazarbayev University, Astana, KazakhstanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandAutomated manufacturing systems require effective supervisory control mechanisms to ensure their efficient operation and prevent fatal errors. Majority of the deadlock supervisory control policies for automated manufacturing systems are formulated based on the presupposition that the systems’ resources are all reliable. However, in actuality systems’ resources experience failure. Deadlocks and blockages could still occur in a system with failure-prone resources to which a supervisory controller is deployed if a failure-prone resource in the system fails. Extra buffers (redundant buffers) are usually used on production floors to store work-in-process parts in order to prevent deadlocks or blockages caused by the failure of failure-prone resources. However, additional buffers signify extra costs to the enterprise. To this end, this paper presents a robust supervisory control framework for automated manufacturing systems that utilizes minimum amount of decentralized buffer units and switch controllers, viz., switch-buffer controllers. The policy combines control places computed to prevent deadlocks in the system and switch-buffer controllers to prevent deadlocks/blockages in the event of failure-prone resource failure. Both the plant and the proposed supervisory controller are modeled using Petri nets. Examples are used to validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Furthermore, the results, compared with some existing techniques, indicate that the proposed technique has more advantages over them.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10758634/Robust supervisory controlautomated manufacturing systemdeadlockPetri netresource failure
spellingShingle Umar Suleiman Abubakar
Ahmad Bala Alhassan
Gridsada Phanomchoeng
Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
IEEE Access
Robust supervisory control
automated manufacturing system
deadlock
Petri net
resource failure
title Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
title_full Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
title_fullStr Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
title_full_unstemmed Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
title_short Robust Supervisory Control for Automated Manufacturing Systems With Minimal Decentralized Switch-Buffer Controllers
title_sort robust supervisory control for automated manufacturing systems with minimal decentralized switch buffer controllers
topic Robust supervisory control
automated manufacturing system
deadlock
Petri net
resource failure
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10758634/
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