TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental comparison of control architectures
AU - Mortel-Fronczak, van de, J.M.
AU - Schmitz, J.P.M.
AU - Rooda, J.E.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Most control systems of flexible production cells have a hierarchical structure. They become very complicated and difficult to maintain and modify when the underlying production cells grow in size and complexity. Moreover, they are characterised by a relatively high sensitivity to failures. As opposed to that, heterarchical control systems are flexible, modular, easy to modify, and to some extent, fault-tolerant. The performance of two control systems, with a hierarchical and a heterarchical structure, based on an exemplary flexible production cell is evaluated by means of simulation experiments. Under ideal circumstances, both control systems perform equally well
AB - Most control systems of flexible production cells have a hierarchical structure. They become very complicated and difficult to maintain and modify when the underlying production cells grow in size and complexity. Moreover, they are characterised by a relatively high sensitivity to failures. As opposed to that, heterarchical control systems are flexible, modular, easy to modify, and to some extent, fault-tolerant. The performance of two control systems, with a hierarchical and a heterarchical structure, based on an exemplary flexible production cell is evaluated by means of simulation experiments. Under ideal circumstances, both control systems perform equally well
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-35569-6_65
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-35569-6_65
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 0-7923-8605-1
T3 - IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
SP - 530
EP - 537
BT - Global production management : IFIP WG5.7 international conference on advances in production management systems, September 6-10, 1999, Berlin, Germany / Ed. K. Mertins, O. Krause, B. Schallock
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
CY - Boston
ER -