Reactive control of overall power consumption in flexible manufacturing systems scheduling A Potential Fields model》.pdf

Control Engineering Practice 44 (2015) 193–208 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Control Engineering Practice journal homepage: /locate/conengprac Reactive control of overall power consumption in flexible manufacturing systems scheduling: A Potential Fields model C. Pach, T. Berger n, Y. Sallez, D. Trentesaux LAMIH, UMR CNRS 8201, University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, F-59313 Valenciennes, France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In recent years, designing “energy-aware manufacturing scheduling and control systems” has become Received 1 December 2014 more and more complex due to the increasing volatility and unpredictability of energy availability, Received in revised form supply and cost, and thus requires the integration of highly reactive behavior in control laws. The aim of 11 June 2015 this paper is to propose a Potential Fields-based flexible manufacturing control system that can dyna- Accepted 4 August 2015 mically allocate and route products to production resources to minimize the total production time. This control system simultaneously optimizes resource energy consumption by limiting energy wastage Keywords: through the real-time control of resource states, and by dynamically controlling the overall power Overall consumption consumption taking the limited availability of energy into consid