Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems
Determining the most appropriate means of producing a given product, i.e., which manufacturing and assembly tasks need to be performed in which order and how, is termed process planning In process planning, abstract manufacturing tasks in a process recipe are matched to available manufacturing resou...
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| author | Felli, Paolo de Silva, Lavindra Logan, Brian Ratchev, Svetan |
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| description | Determining the most appropriate means of producing a given product, i.e., which manufacturing and assembly tasks need to be performed in which order and how, is termed process planning In process planning, abstract manufacturing tasks in a process recipe are matched to available manufacturing resources, e.g., CNC machines and robots, to give an executable process plan. A process plan controller then delegates each operation in the plan to specific manufacturing resources. In this paper we present an approach to the automated computation of process plans and process plan controllers. We extend previous work to support both non-deterministic (i.e., partially controllable) resources, and to allow operations to be performed in parallel on the same part. We show how implicit fairness assumptions can be captured in this setting, and how this impacts the definition of process plans. |
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| spelling | nottingham-442792020-05-04T19:01:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44279/ Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems Felli, Paolo de Silva, Lavindra Logan, Brian Ratchev, Svetan Determining the most appropriate means of producing a given product, i.e., which manufacturing and assembly tasks need to be performed in which order and how, is termed process planning In process planning, abstract manufacturing tasks in a process recipe are matched to available manufacturing resources, e.g., CNC machines and robots, to give an executable process plan. A process plan controller then delegates each operation in the plan to specific manufacturing resources. In this paper we present an approach to the automated computation of process plans and process plan controllers. We extend previous work to support both non-deterministic (i.e., partially controllable) resources, and to allow operations to be performed in parallel on the same part. We show how implicit fairness assumptions can be captured in this setting, and how this impacts the definition of process plans. 2017-08-19 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Felli, Paolo, de Silva, Lavindra, Logan, Brian and Ratchev, Svetan (2017) Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems. In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 19-25 August 2017, Melbourne, Australia. |
| spellingShingle | Felli, Paolo de Silva, Lavindra Logan, Brian Ratchev, Svetan Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title | Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title_full | Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title_fullStr | Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title_short | Process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| title_sort | process plan controllers for non-deterministic manufacturing systems |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44279/ |