Avoiding deadlock and reducing starvation and blocking in automated manufacturing systems.

Deadlock-free operations of automated manufacturing systems (AMS) are essential for high machine utilization and productivity. Based on the resource-oriented Petri net models of AMS and our previous work (2000) on a necessary and sufficient condition for deadlock-free operation, this paper proposes...

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Published in:IEEE Transactions on robotics and automation 17, 5 (2001).
Main Author: Wu, N.
Format: Article
Language:English
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