An automatic Petri-net generator for modeling a flexible manufacturing system

Author

Sun, Tien-Hsiang ; Fu, Li-Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

670

Abstract

Petri net is widely used in the field of modeling a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) because of its intrinsic features such as concurrency, asynchronization, conflict, and event triggering. But designing a Petri net model for an FMS is extremely tedious and difficult for debugging. Therefore, an automatic Petri net generator which can generate a bug-free model for an FMS is rather useful and practical. In this paper, a systematic method to construct a timed place Petri net model for modeling an FMS is proposed, and is implemented as an automatic Petri net generator, with a graphic user interface, through which a user can input the system information of a practical FMS, such as the number of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), the number of machines, and their geometric relationship, as well as process flows of parts to be processed. Then, this generator will use these pieces of data to generate the corresponding Petri net model

Keywords

Petri nets; digital simulation; engineering graphics; flexible manufacturing systems; graphical user interfaces; production engineering computing; AGV; FMS; asynchronization; automated guided vehicles; concurrency; conflict; event triggering; flexible manufacturing system; geometric relationship; graphic user interface; modeling; timed place Petri net model; utomatic Petri net generator; Context modeling; Debugging; Flexible manufacturing systems; Graphics; Job shop scheduling; Power generation; Power system modeling; Solid modeling; User interfaces; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994. Humans, Information and Technology., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2129-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1994.399917

Filename

399917