Petri Nets based coordination of flexible autonomous guided vehicles in flexible manufacturing systems

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 508-515

  Herrero Perez D ^a   Martinez Barbera H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS GUIDED VEHICLES; CONTROL POLICIES; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING; FREE MOTIONS; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PATH PLANNING; REPLANNING; SAFETY NAVIGATIONS; TASK ALLOCATIONS; TASK EXECUTIONS;

AUTOMATION; FACTORY AUTOMATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KETONES; MARINE BIOLOGY; PETRI NETS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 56349133162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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