Intelligent distributed production control

Intelligent distributed production control

This editorial introduces the special issue of the Springer journal, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, on intelligent distributed production control. This special issue contains selected papers presented at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing— INCOM’2009 (Bakhtadze and Dolgui 2009). The papers in this special issue were selected because of their high qua...

Intelligent distributed and supervised flow control methodology for production systems

This paper deals with the development of an intelligent distributed and supervised control approach for highvolume production systems in which the flow of parts can be approximated by a continuous (fluid) model. The proposed approach is based on the decomposition of the production system into elementary modules in order to reduce the control design computational complexity. In this context, a t...

Multiagent Systems for Distributed Intelligent Control

Control of complex distributed systems with distributed intelligent agents

Control of spatially distributed systems is a challenging problem because of their complex nature, nonlinearity, and generally high order. The lack of accurate and computationally efficient model-based techniques for large, spatially distributed systems leads to challenges in controlling the system. Agent-based control structures provide a powerful tool to manage distributed systems by utilizin...

Intelligent Control of Air Compressor Production Process

The air compressor provides not only the required pressure air for the cooling equipment and refrigeration plant, but also the raw material required for the air separation plant. Utilizing the air compressor is extremely extensive in many significant departments such as the metallurgy, oil and chemical industry. The air compressor production process is a time-varying, delay and nonlinear comple...