Automated control synthesis for an assembly line using discrete event system control theory

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 284-289

  Chandra, Vigyan ^a   Huang, Zhongdong ^b   Kumar, Ratnesh ^c  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata; Discrete event systems; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FINITE AUTOMATA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCADA SYSTEMS;

DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEM; FINITE STATE MACHINES; LOGIC CONTROL SYNTHESIS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL THEORY;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0042171780     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813152     Document Type: Article

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