A hierarchical control system for scheduling and supervising flexible manufacturing cells

A hierarchical control system is proposed for automated flexible manufacturing cells (FMC) that operate in a job shop flow setting. The control system is made up of a higher level scheduler/reactive scheduler, which optimizes the production flow within the cell, and a lower level supervisor that imp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fahmy, Sherif
Other Authors: ElMekkawy, Tarek(Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering) Balakrishnan, Subramaniam (Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering)
Language:en_US
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3149