A reference system for the benchmarking of manufacturing control systems

The research community of manufacturing control systems has a high demand for reference systems to evaluate and compare their algorithms. Most of the reference systems used in scientific works are not fully described in publications or even undefined, making valid comparisons of different algorithms impossible. Therefore, the authors have defined three Complexity Dimensions that provide different dynamic scenarios for evaluating control algorithms. Within this article, a new reference system is described based on these dimensions that would simplify the comparison of research results in the field of decentralized manufacturing control.