Computational architectures for shop floor control in automated job shops and midvolume manufacturing facilities are evolving into three identifiable forms, which are contrasted here. The first architecture, termed th...
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Computational architectures for shop floor control in automated job shops and midvolume manufacturing facilities are evolving into three identifiable forms, which are contrasted here. The first architecture, termed the modular approach, is based on earlier monolithic MRP/order-release systems and is typified by recent CIM (computer-integrated manufacturing) product offerings such as GEs CIMPLICITY. The second architecture is a hierarchical architecture, such as NIST's AMRF (National Institute of Standards and Technology's Automated Manufacturing Research Facility) system. The third architecture is a contract net architecture which is fully decentralized and may be a candidate for future CIM systems. These architectural forms may be distinguished on the basis of the partitioning principles which predominate in their design.< >
The applicability of transputers in controlsystems is investigated. This is done by implementing a controller for a flexible robot arm with one degree of freedom on a system consisting of an IBM-AT and four transpute...
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The applicability of transputers in controlsystems is investigated. This is done by implementing a controller for a flexible robot arm with one degree of freedom on a system consisting of an IBM-AT and four transputers. It is found that a control system with transputers offers a great improvement compared with conventional digital controlsystems. Transputers can solve the common problem in control practice, i.e. having very sophisticted controllers but not being able to implement them because they need too much computing time. However, transputers are not an optimal solution for more sophisticated controlsystems because of shortcomings in the scheduling mechanism.
In this paper, the Linear Constrained Regulation Problem for continuous-time systems will be studied and a design algorithm for a linear constrained feedback controller will be developed. Both state and control vector...
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In this paper, the Linear Constrained Regulation Problem for continuous-time systems will be studied and a design algorithm for a linear constrained feedback controller will be developed. Both state and control vectors are assumed to be subjected to linear constraints The approach presented, is based on the notion of positive invariance of polyhedral sets. Existence conditions for a control law that transfers asymptotically to the origin all initial states in a polyhedral subset of the state space is formulated. Then, a solution to the LCRP is derived solving a non-linear optimization problem
A program package, called MICRON, has been developed to offer a user-friendly implementation tool for multivariable controllers and control strategies on microcomputers. It can be used for the development and testing ...
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A program package, called MICRON, has been developed to offer a user-friendly implementation tool for multivariable controllers and control strategies on microcomputers. It can be used for the development and testing of control algorithms in simulated controlsystems and in real-time applications. The package can be used for low-cost automation projects as well as for educational purposes. The paper deals with the version of MICRON running on the IBM-PC with the Real Time Forth environment RTF. To implement control algorithms and control strategies in MICRON, it is necessary to describe the algorithm or strategy by means of a block structure which can be created at several levels. To start with, the user is provided with some elementary blocks. New blocks can be created connecting these elementary blocks, using the MICRON language. Once new blocks have been created they can be used as building blocks for new and more sophisticated blocks. So a block structure can be created with an increasing level of complexity in a structural and flexible way. There are various predefined blocks providing simple controllers, simple linear process models, signal generators, nonlinear functions, delays, vector and matrix operations. The number of elementary blocks is not fixed but can be expanded by programming in Forth, the implementation language of MICRON.
In this paper several techniques are given for the identification of stable LSI discrete time systems from input-output data. Explicit H ∞ norm error bounds are given and convergence in the noise free and the unifor...
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In this paper several techniques are given for the identification of stable LSI discrete time systems from input-output data. Explicit H ∞ norm error bounds are given and convergence in the noise free and the uniformly bounded deterministic noise case are established. The assumptions made on the unknown system are minimal and are limited throughout the paper to a lower bound on the decay rate of the unknown system and an upper bound on the gain of the unknown system. Given this information an experiment and a construction are specified: the experiment involves obtaining a specified number of frequency measurements of the unknown systems at a set of specified frequencies; the construction uses this experimental data to generate an identified model with prescribed H ∞ norm error tolerance to the unknown system. The resulting model identification process is highly efficient from a computational point of view.
This paper is a condensed version of recent work [17] wherein several fundamental practical concerns pertaining to the use of linear, time-invariant, distributed parameter systems as models of physical processes are i...
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This paper is a condensed version of recent work [17] wherein several fundamental practical concerns pertaining to the use of linear, time-invariant, distributed parameter systems as models of physical processes are investigated. In particular, it is argued here that certain common distributed parameter systems exhibit properties which make them unsuitable for use as plant models in the design of feedback compensation. Classes of distributed parameter systems exhibiting these properties are defined and are said to be ill-posed for use in feedback compensator design. The structure of these classes is investigated within an extremely general mathematical framework which imposes no a priori restrictions on the class of distributed parameter systems under consideration. Within this framework necessary and sufficient conditions are given which completely characterise the classes of ill-posed models and establish their equivalence. These conditions are concretely illustrated by way of applications to several well-known flexible structure models. Surprisingly, several of these models are determined to be ill-posed for use in feedback compensator design.
Robust Schur stability conditions are obtained for polynomials of orders two to five. For n=2 and 3, the conditions obtained are related to stability of the corner points, while for n=4 and 5, the conditions are relat...
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Robust Schur stability conditions are obtained for polynomials of orders two to five. For n=2 and 3, the conditions obtained are related to stability of the corner points, while for n=4 and 5, the conditions are related to stability of corner and possible supplementary points. The number of points increases substantially as the polynomial order increases. The obtained results are of importance in the robust design of controlsystems. The difficulty in extending the approach to higher-order polynomials is discussed. Special cases for such extensions are mentioned. Further applications of the results obtained may be of use in the stability study of two-dimensional systems. Some examples for the application of the stability conditions are given and, in particular, the two counterexamples presented in the literature are discussed.
This paper presents general frequency domain criteria for the robust stability of systems with parametric uncertainities. The criteria are applied to the robust stability verification of LTI systems with or without ti...
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This paper presents general frequency domain criteria for the robust stability of systems with parametric uncertainities. The criteria are applied to the robust stability verification of LTI systems with or without time delays and of LTI systems operating under possibly nonlinear passive feedback.
An on-line scheme to fault detection in adaptive controlsystems is proposed by introducing Kullbaek Discrimination Information (KDI) as a detection index. When a physical parameter change due to a failure has occurre...
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An on-line scheme to fault detection in adaptive controlsystems is proposed by introducing Kullbaek Discrimination Information (KDI) as a detection index. When a physical parameter change due to a failure has occurred in a system under adaptive control, the failure effect will hardly be visible in the output performance because of the adaptation mechanism. Such a parameter change is also difficult to detect by monitoring the regulator parameters, which are determined by a recursive identification based on the direct approach. Since the failure effect is reflected as a change in the predictor model used for the adaptive control design, the fault detection leads to a model discrimination problem. It has been shown that the KDI can be used as an effective distortion measure for the model discrimination and the index can be applied in a modified form to detect a fault on-line. Simulation studies on a second order damped oscillatory system have been carried out to demonstrate the efficiency of the method.
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