System modeling and control with resource-oriented petri nets by NaiQi Wu and MengChu Zhou

摘要

Popularised by Henry Ford in the early 20th century, mass production has served as an engine of the development and progress of human society and civilisation. The traditional mass production mode is challenged by quick market changes of multiple product types with a small batch, leading to the emergence and development of an automated flexible manufacturing system that is typically a conglomeration of computer numerically controlled machine tools, robots, AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicles), buffers and fixtures, served by a material-handling system. Modeling and control of a flexible