Title :
A simulation-based controller for a flexible manufacturing cell
Author :
Gonzalez, Fernando G. ; Davis, Wayne J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Gen. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
This paper discusses a new simulation tool which provides a computer-aided tool for designing the controllers that are required to manage a flexible manufacturing cell. The simulation tool explicitly models the controller interactions for a multilevel hierarchy of controllers. The simulation provides sufficient fidelity that the included controller models are actually capable of controlling their respective subsystems. To demonstrate this capability, the paper discusses current efforts to construct a physical emulator for a flexible manufacturing system whose control architecture has been developed using the new simulation tool
Keywords :
CAD/CAM; control system CAD; digital simulation; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial control; computer-aided design; control architecture; controller design; controller interactions; controller models; flexible manufacturing cell; multilevel hierarchy; simulation-based controller; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer languages; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Distributed control; Flexible manufacturing systems; Object oriented modeling; Software tools; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4053-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1997.633234