Developing AGVS Petri Net Control Models from Flowpath Nets

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 237-250

  Hsieh, Suhua ^a,b   Kang, Ming Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

AGVS; Control Model; Flowpath Model; Petri Nets; Wiring Layout

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; COST ACCOUNTING; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS;

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE SYSTEM (AGVS); FLOWPATH MODEL;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0031629617     PISSN: 02786125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6125(98)80072-1     Document Type: Article

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