Control of continuum models of production systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2511-2526

  La Marca, Michael ^a   Armbruster, Dieter ^a,c   Herty, Michael ^b   Ringhofer, Christian ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjoint calculus; output control; partial differential equation (PDE); production lines

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHODS; ADJOINTS; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; CONTINUUM MODEL; CONTROL PROBLEMS; CYCLE TIME; DEMAND RATES; HYPERBOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; HYPERBOLIC PDES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OUTPUT CONTROL; OUTPUT RATE; PRODUCTION LINES; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RATE PROFILES; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT DEMAND; WORK IN PROGRESS;

CALCULATIONS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 78149264550     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2046925     Document Type: Article

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