Title :
Stability and performance of a simple distributed tracking policy for production control of manufacturing systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manuf. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA
Abstract :
The objective of distributed tracking is to operate a production system as closely as possible to an idealized regime obtained by a continuous-flow relaxation of the actual (discrete) production control problem. The author has investigated the stability and performance of a large class of distributed tracking policies called “non-idling-non-exceeding (NINE)” in an earlier paper. In this work the author focuses on the most natural trading policy in this class, and finds a tight bound on its performance for a single machine and a sufficient condition for its stability for multiple-machine systems. This condition is considerably less stringent than the one available for general NINE policies
Keywords :
linear programming; production control; tracking; continuous-flow relaxation; distributed tracking policy; manufacturing systems; multiple-machine systems; nonidling-nonexceeding policies; production control; single-machine system; stability; sufficient condition; tight bound; Continuous production; Feedback; Manufacturing systems; Production control; Production systems; Real time systems; Stability; Sufficient conditions; Target tracking; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1994., Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1968-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1994.411002
