Title
Performance evaluation of holonic control of a switch arrival system.
Abstract
The application of holonic paradigm to the hybrid control system class is a promising way to give flexibility to the control of such systems, leading to new industrial intelligent processes. However, there is a need for performance evaluation of such solutions in order to give them credit among the multiple formalisms used in the literature. This article aims at evaluating the optimality and stability of the holonic control of a switch arrival system, a classical system from the literature where a unique server has to switch between leaking tanks full of fluids before they get empty. Optimality is evaluated compared to a scheduling algorithm aimed at minimizing the number of switches of the server while respecting the constraints. Stability is evaluated through a stochastic simulation run aiming at finding cyclic behavior of the control in a whole set of random initial configurations. The results tend to show a good overall performance of the control, especially considering the algorithms used are quite simple, thus could be made better and enhance the performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1177/1063293X16643568
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING-RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
intelligent manufacturing system,holonic manufacturing system,intelligent process,hybrid control system,scheduling algorithms,performance evaluation,stability
Stochastic simulation,Holonic manufacturing system,Scheduling (computing),Control engineering,Control system,Intelligent manufacturing system,Engineering,Rotation formalisms in three dimensions
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25.0
SP1.0
1063-293X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.46
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Indriago120.80
Olivier Cardin2335.79
Odile Bellenguez-Morineau3939.54
Naly Rakoto420.46
Pierre Castagna5555.80
Edgar Chacón652.41