Nowadays, manufacturing control systems can respond more effectively to exigent market requirements and real-time demands. Indeed, they take advantage of changing their structural and behavioural arrangements to tailor the control solution from a diverse set of feasible configurations. However, the challenge of this approach is to determine efficient mechanisms that dynamically optimise the configuration between different architectures. This paper presents a dynamic hybrid control architecture that integrates a switching mechanism to control changes at both structural and behavioural level. The switching mechanism is based on a genetic algorithm and strives to find the most suitable operating mode of the architecture with regard to optimality and reactivity. The proposed approach was tested in a real flexible job shop to demonstrate the applicability and efficiency of including an optimisation algorithm in the switching process of a dynamic hybrid control architecture. ; This work was supported by the Colombian scholarship programme of department of science – COLCIENCIAS under grant ‘Convocatoria 568 – Doctorados en el exterior’ and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana under grant ‘Programa de Formacion de posgrados del Profesor Javeriano’. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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    Title :

    Pollux: a dynamic hybrid control architecture for flexible job shop systems



    Publication date :

    2017-01-01


    Remarks:

    doi:10.1080/00207543.2016.1218087



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629