Petri nets are applied to the bottom-up design of a handshaking protocol for transferring parts through a sequence of workstations. The authors illustrate the application of Petri-net theory to verify properties of th...
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Petri nets are applied to the bottom-up design of a handshaking protocol for transferring parts through a sequence of workstations. The authors illustrate the application of Petri-net theory to verify properties of the complete system behavior based on the structure of the Petri-net model. It is shown that communication between local controllers is modeled by places corresponding to upstream and downstream messages. Consistency in the interconnection of the subsystem models is guaranteed by the identification of these communication places. To analyze the properties of the complete system, results on liveness and place invariants for Petri nets are applied to the Petri-net model.< >
The demand for wider, thinner rolled steel has led to an increasing interest in the control of the strip “shape”. Mechanisms for controlling shape include roll bending, roll tilt (or mill steer) and spray pattern co...
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The demand for wider, thinner rolled steel has led to an increasing interest in the control of the strip “shape”. Mechanisms for controlling shape include roll bending, roll tilt (or mill steer) and spray pattern control. This paper will principally focus on an analysis of the spray control system and the associated interaction between adjacent zones. This paper decribes a new approach to shape control, a mathematical model is derived for the dynamic thermal expansion of the rolls of the a tandem cold rolling mill. The model structure has been specifically designed to facilitate control studies. The system is highly non-linear but the model suggests how the system can be linearized by an appropriate input signal transformation. The linearized system then represents a coupled multi-input multi-output dynamical system linking the cooling water sprays to the measured exit strip shape. This linearized model leads to a dynamical decoupling procedure which reduces the system to a set of single-input single—output control systems. Apart from the application to shape control, the method proposed here has more general applicability since the same kind of problem arises in a variety of cross-machine probelms.
An approach to iterative learning control system design based on 2D system theory is presented. A 2D model for the iterative learning control system which reveals the connections between learning control systems and 2...
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An approach to iterative learning control system design based on 2D system theory is presented. A 2D model for the iterative learning control system which reveals the connections between learning control systems and 2D system theory is established. A learning control algorithm is proposed, and the convergence of learning using this algorithm is guaranteed by 2D stability. The learning algorithm is applied successfully to the trajectory tracking control problem for a parallel link robot manipulator. The excellent performance of this learning algorithm is demonstrated by computer simulation results.< >
Invariance is a primary characteristic of a control system. It is strongly interrelated with the system structure where the latter provides a necessary condition for the invariance. The relationship is established by ...
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A method is described for the systematic development of computer models for control systems with complex relationships between multiple nonlinear phenomena and energy-storage elements. The specific example of an elect...
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A method is described for the systematic development of computer models for control systems with complex relationships between multiple nonlinear phenomena and energy-storage elements. The specific example of an electromechanical position control system, with consideration of interrelated actions that include static friction, Coulomb friction, backlash, and a significant inertial load, is considered. The use of piecewise-linear models provides an extensive set of operational modes, but methodology is presented for consideration of the conditions for all possible changes of mode and the actions that accompany each change. Simulation results are presented.< >
In a hard real-time distributed computing system (HRTDCS), all the tasks are required to meet their associated deadlines; a task not meeting its deadline leads to a catastrophic failure of the system. The authors cons...
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In a hard real-time distributed computing system (HRTDCS), all the tasks are required to meet their associated deadlines; a task not meeting its deadline leads to a catastrophic failure of the system. The authors consider an HRTDCS that executes both periodic and aperiodic tasks associated with timing, precedence, and resource constraints. The fault-tolerance capability in such a system is achieved through the use of time redundancy. The problem of workload redistribution for fault tolerance in an HRTDCS is studied. A graph model to represent the system workload is developed. Three performance measures for the analysis of an HRTDCS are defined. A nonpreemptive scheduling algorithm is proposed to distribute the workload of the operational nodes of the HRTDCS in the presence of both hardware and task failures. This task allocation strategy is applied to a practical system, namely, the HRTDCS onboard a spacecraft. The performance measures obtained for a typical system workload indicate that the algorithm is quite suitable for an HRTDCS with regard to uniform workload distribution.< >
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DUNIETZ, ISHSU, JLCMCEACHERN, MTSTOCKING, JHSWARTZ, MATROMBLY, RMThe authors
Irwin S. Dunietz John L.C. Hsu Michael T. McEachern James H. Stocking Mark A. Swartz andRodney M. Tromblyare responsible for design and development of the Manufacturing Process Control System. Mr. Dunietz joined AT&T in 1980. He is a member of the technical staff in the Manufacturing Information Automation department at AT&T Engineering Research Center Princeton New Jersey. He received an A.B. in mathematics from Cornell University and an M.S.E. in computer science from Princeton University. Mr. Hsu who joined AT&T in 1970 is a department head in the Manufacturing Information Automation department at the Engineering Research Center. He received an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri. Mr. McEachern joined AT&T in 1962 and is a supervisor in the 5ESS™ Line Unit Manufacturing department at AT&T Technologies in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. He is responsible for the manufacturing process control center in Oklahoma City which provides computerized support for all circuit pack manufacturing. Mr. Stocking who joined AT&T in 1975 is a supervisor in the Manufacturing Information Automation department at the Engineering Research Center. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California Berkeley. Mr. Swartz joined AT&T in 1980 and is a member of the technical staff in the Manufacturing Information Automation department at the Engineering Research Center. He received an A.B. in computer science from Cornell University and an M.S. in computer science from Rutgers—The State University. Mr. Trombly who joined AT&T in 19 78 is an assistant manager at the AT&T Merrimack Valley Works in Massachusetts. Previously he was a supervisor at the Engineering Research Center. He holds a B.S. in computers and systems engineering and an M.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The central challenge of all manufacturing is making products to the right standards and delivering them at the right time. AT&T is upgrading its corporate and factory resource planning systems to improve control ...
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The central challenge of all manufacturing is making products to the right standards and delivering them at the right time. AT&T is upgrading its corporate and factory resource planning systems to improve control of day-to-day manufacturing. The Manufacturing processcontrol System (MPCS), developed at the AT&T engineering Research Center (ERC), provides this support. MPCS connects the shop floor with production scheduling, accounting, product data archive, and engineering support systems.
The equations of motion for a robotic manipulator are a very lengthy and complicated set of nonlinear, highly coupled differential equations. A simplified model that reveals the dominant dynamics would be valuable for...
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The equations of motion for a robotic manipulator are a very lengthy and complicated set of nonlinear, highly coupled differential equations. A simplified model that reveals the dominant dynamics would be valuable for purposes of utilizing modern control theory. In this work, a method is presented for obtaining a reduced model for a nonlinear system. The structure of the simplified model is assembled from a library of the nonlinear basis terms that were present in the original model. This p-term structure is selected from the library in p-stages using a recently developed optimization scheme based on projection matrices and conjugate direction ideas. The algorithm is used to identify the dominant dynamics of several robot manipulator models and the results are verified on the GCA P300V robot in RPI's Robotics and automation Laboratory.
This paper presents an overview of the recent developments in analysis, control and identification of distributed parameter and time-delay systems using piecewise constant orthogonal basis functions such as walsh func...
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This paper presents an overview of the recent developments in analysis, control and identification of distributed parameter and time-delay systems using piecewise constant orthogonal basis functions such as walsh functions and block pulse functions.
The Hungarian People's Republic is an East European country whose educational systems are not well known all over the world. This article presents a short survey of Hungary's historic background and her educat...
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The Hungarian People's Republic is an East European country whose educational systems are not well known all over the world. This article presents a short survey of Hungary's historic background and her educational system. The organization of the BTU /Budapest Technical University/ and Faculty of electricalengineering are discussed in detail. In the second part of the article the export archievements of the Hungarian educational systems are discussed.
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