The state of the art in intelligent real-time FMS control: a comprehensive survey |
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Authors: | Chetan S Shukla F Frank Chen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Florida International University, University Park, ECS 442, 11200 SW 8th Street, 33199 Miami, FL, USA |
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Abstract: | Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have been developed with the hope that they would provide a means to tackle a threefold challenge — better quality, lower cost and shorter lead times — by integrating machine tools, robots, material handling and storage systems, and computers. Control of the integrated system presented a new set of problems as well as challenges, which have been receiving considerable attention from the academic community as well as from industrial system users. Intelligent control, which involves using computers to assist in decision making at various stages of the control process, has been advocated by many researchers as a possible avenue to reach a solution to these problems. This paper provides a review of the state of the art in intelligent control of FMS, in an attempt to supplement earlier general reviews via a more focused perspective. The principles of several techniques, namely simulation, knowledge based, example based, petri nets, and hybrid approaches are briefly introduced, and publications are reviewed, followed by discussions ontheir potential. Suggestions for further research and development are also enumerated. |
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Keywords: | Flexible manufacturing systems FMS control survey |
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