Deadlocks are a rather undesirable situation in a highly automated flexible manufacturing
system. Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to …

Biological immunity is a natural system that protects a host organism against disease
causing elements threatening its normal functioning. It offers many interesting features that …

This paper considers the stochastic scheduling of a two-machine flow shop robotic cell with
controllable inspection times. The inspection here is performed by a multi-function robot …

In this paper, an approach for modeling and analysis of time critical, dynamic and complex
systems using stochastic Petri nets together with fuzzy sets is presented. The presented …

Agent-based intelligent manufacturing control systems are capable to efficiently respond
and adapt to environmental changes. Manufacturing system adaptation and evolution can …

Supervisory control that ensures deadlock-free and nonblocking operation has been an
active research area of manufacturing engineering. So far, most of deadlock control policies …

Robotic applications require both correct task performance and compensation for undefined
behaviors. Although deep learning is a promising approach to perform complex tasks, the …

This paper presents an application of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPN) to
evaluate the performance of subsea blowout preventer (BOP) system. The overall subsea …

Deadlocks should be eliminated in highly automated manufacturing systems since their
occurrence implies the stoppage of the whole or partial system operation. Over the past …

Fault-tolerant control (FTC) is an active research field promoted by the increased demand on
reliability, availability and safety of manufacturing systems. In this paper, an overview of the …