Deadlock-free control and scheduling are vital for optimizing the performance of automated
manufacturing systems (AMSs) with shared resources and route flexibility. Based on the …

This paper focuses on the deadlock-free scheduling problem of automated manufacturing
systems with shared resources and route flexibility, and develops novel scheduling methods …

In recent years, there has been growing interest in reducing energy consumption and
emissions of manufacturing systems. Except for adopting new equipment or techniques …

This work investigates a scheduling problem of deadlock-prone flexible manufacturing
systems modeled by place-timed Petri nets. It proposes an anytime branch and bound …

Based on the Petri net (PN) models of the flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), this paper
focuses on solving the scheduling problem of minimizing the total energy consumption of …

Deadlock-free control and scheduling are two different problems for flexible manufacturing
systems (FMSs). They are significant for improving the behaviors of the systems. Based on …

This paper presents a new Hybrid Filtered Beam Search algorithm for deadlock-free
scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems. The proposed algorithm uses a diversification …

This paper proposes an effective hybrid particle swarm optimization (HPSO) algorithm to
solve the deadlock-free scheduling problem of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) that …

This paper illustrates that Petri nets with self-loops are more powerful than pure nets in
modeling and control of flexible manufacturing systems. A self-loop in a Petri net cannot be …

To scheduling flexible manufacturing system (FMS) efficiently, we propose and evaluate an
improved search strategy and its application to FMS scheduling in the P-timed Petri net …