Title
On-line control reconfiguration at the machine and cell levels: case studies from the reconfigurable factory testbed
Abstract
A static control system architecture cannot meet the demand for continually introducing new parts into manufacturing systems while maintaining high quality and throughput for existing parts; a reconfigurable control infrastructure is needed. Control authority in the factory is typically allocated to three levels: the machine, cell, and system. The machine controllers must be reconfigurable to process different parts, the cell controllers must be reconfigurable to adapt to different part flows, and the system level controller must be reconfigurable to adapt to new parts in the system. In this paper, we describe the reconfigurable control infrastructure that we have developed at the University of Michigan's reconfigurable factory testbed. We then show through example how this infrastructure enables the real-time reconfiguration of the controllers at the machine and cell levels to adapt to quality problems and unexpected faults
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612583
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
industrial control,manufacturing systems,cell controller,control authority,machine controller,manufacturing system,online control reconfiguration,reconfigurable control infrastructure,reconfigurable factory testbed,system level controller
Control system architecture,Control theory,Factory,Manufacturing systems,Testbed,Real-time computing,Control engineering,Engineering,Throughput,Control reconfiguration,System level,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1
0-7803-9401-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan E. Luntz1353.22
James R. Moyne220972.77
Dawn M. Tilbury3900123.02