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 …

Cluster tools are automated robotic manufacturing systems containing multiple computer-
controlled process modules. They have been increasingly used for wafer fabrication. This …

Deadlock problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have received more and more
attention in the last two decades. Petri nets are one of the more promising mathematical …

Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient …

Resource failures may happen in automated manufacturing systems (AMSs) because of
different reasons in the real world, making most existing deadlock control policies …

Because of residency time constraints and activity time variation of cluster tools, it is very
difficult to operate such integrated semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This paper …

Over the last two decades, a great deal of research has been focused on solving deadlock
problems in resource allocation systems such as computer communication systems …

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 …

In human and robot collaborative hybrid assembly cell as we proposed, it is important to
develop automatic subtask allocation strategy for human and robot in usage of their …

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 …