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A supervisory control paradigm for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems

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Most of the current academic flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling research has focused on the derivation of algorithms or knowledge-based techniques for efficient FMS real-time control. Here, the limitations of this view are outlined with respect to effective control of actual real-time FMS operation. A more realistic paradigm for real-time FMS control is presented, based on explicit engineering of human and automated control functions and system interfaces. To illustrate design principles within the conceptual model, an example of algorithmic and operator function models for a specific real-time FMS control problem are developed.

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  1. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0205, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Jane C. Ammons

  2. Center for Man-Machine Systems Research, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0205, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    T. Govindaraj & Christine M. Mitchell

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Portions of this paper have appeared in: Proc. 2nd ORSA/TIMS Conf. on Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Operations Research Models and Applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 12–15, 1986, and Proc. 1986 Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 14–17, 1986.

This research was supported in part by the New Faculty Research Program of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Ammons, J.C., Govindaraj, T. & Mitchell, C.M. A supervisory control paradigm for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems. Ann Oper Res 15, 313–335 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186801

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