Title :
A Petri net-based architecture for plant simulation
Author :
Camurri, Antonio ; Coglio, Alessandro
Author_Institution :
DIST, Genoa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
We propose a hybrid architecture for the simulation of plants. Its core is a Petri net executor based on a new class of Petri nets called extended simple colored Petri nets. The executor is supervised by an expert system. Our architecture is very well-suited for the software-engineering development of plant simulators, as development times and errors can be dramatically reduced. The validity of our approach has been demonstrated by means of an implementation that we have realized as an industrial project for Demag Italimpianti
Keywords :
Petri nets; computer aided production planning; digital simulation; expert systems; production control; simulation; Petri net; computer simulation; expert system; extended simple colored Petri nets; industrial plant; scheduling; software-engineering development; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Expert systems; Job shop scheduling; Marine vehicles; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Raw materials; Throughput; Tokamaks;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation Proceedings, 1997. ETFA '97., 1997 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4192-9
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1997.616303
