Design of a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor for flexible manufacturing systems

YF Chen, ZW Li, M Khalgui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient …

Design of a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor with a compressed supervisory structure for flexible manufacturing systems

YF Chen, ZW Li - Automatica, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, a deadlock prevention policy for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) is
proposed, which can obtain a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor …

An improved iterative synthesis method for liveness enforcing supervisors of flexible manufacturing systems

M Uzam, MC Zhou - International Journal of Production Research, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Our previous work presented a Petri net-based iterative synthesis policy for deadlock
prevention in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Given the Petri net model of an FMS …

Deadlock prevention based on structure reuse of Petri net supervisors for flexible manufacturing systems

ZW Li, GY Liu, HM Hanisch… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlocks are an undesirable situation in automated flexible manufacturing systems (FMS).
Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to catastrophic …

On structural minimality of optimal supervisors for flexible manufacturing systems

YF Chen, ZW Li - Automatica, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper develops a place invariant based deadlock prevention method to obtain an
optimal, ie, maximally permissive, liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor with a minimal …

A divide-and-conquer-method for the synthesis of liveness enforcing supervisors for flexible manufacturing systems

M Uzam, ZW Li, G Gelen, RS Zakariyya - Journal of Intelligent …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper a divide-and-conquer-method for the synthesis of liveness enforcing
supervisors (LES) for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) is proposed. Given the Petri net …

An iterative synthesis approach to Petri net-based deadlock prevention policy for flexible manufacturing systems

M Uzam, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an iterative synthesis approach to Petri net (PN)-based deadlock
prevention policy for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Given the PN model (PNM) of an …

Identification and elimination of redundant control places in Petri net based liveness enforcing supervisors of FMS

M Uzam, Z Li, MC Zhou - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2007 - Springer
In the past two decades, a number of Petri-net-based approaches were proposed for
deadlock prevention in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). An FMS is modeled as a Petri …

Design of liveness-enforcing supervisors for flexible manufacturing systems using Petri nets

ZW Li, HS Hu, AR Wang - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This correspondence develops a methodology to synthesize supervisors for a special class
of Petri nets that can well model many flexible manufacturing systems. In our previous work …

Behaviorally optimal and structurally simple liveness-enforcing supervisors of flexible manufacturing systems

YF Chen, ZW Li, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two iterative deadlock prevention policies for flexible manufacturing
systems (FMSs). Both can find a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor with a …