TY - GEN
T1 - RAPID PROTOTYPING OF CONTROL SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS USING SUPERVISORY CONTROL THEORY
AU - Qiu, Robin G.
AU - Joshi, Sanjay B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Dr. M. W. Wonham, Dept, of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, for his providing the TCT package, and all the members (especially to Glen Smith and Jeff Smith) of the rapidcim research group. Pennsylvania State University, who developed the MPSG package. (Dr. J. Smith is currently with Texas A&M University.)
Publisher Copyright:
© 1996 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Supervisory control (SC) theory, coupled with the TCT modeling package (Wonham, 1994), is theoretically powerful and practically useful. However, due to the lack of an efficient method to transform the SC model into operational control logic, this theory has found limited applications in manufacturing. This paper presents a method to rapidly prototype operational control software for an automated manufacturing system using SC theory. Given the control specification of a manufacturing workcell, an SC model can be developed using the TCT package. By transforming the SC model into an MPSG-based model (Smith, 1992), the modified MPSG builder can generate the corresponded control logic in the form of C++ source codes. After the equipment-level control and information handler functions are inserted into the control logic, an executable computer-based controller on the shop floor can be immediately compiled.
AB - Supervisory control (SC) theory, coupled with the TCT modeling package (Wonham, 1994), is theoretically powerful and practically useful. However, due to the lack of an efficient method to transform the SC model into operational control logic, this theory has found limited applications in manufacturing. This paper presents a method to rapidly prototype operational control software for an automated manufacturing system using SC theory. Given the control specification of a manufacturing workcell, an SC model can be developed using the TCT package. By transforming the SC model into an MPSG-based model (Smith, 1992), the modified MPSG builder can generate the corresponded control logic in the form of C++ source codes. After the equipment-level control and information handler functions are inserted into the control logic, an executable computer-based controller on the shop floor can be immediately compiled.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1996-0780
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1996-0780
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85169161489
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 95
EP - 101
BT - Manufacturing Science and Engineering
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1996 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1996
Y2 - 17 November 1996 through 22 November 1996
ER -