Coloured adaptive structured Petri-net: A tool for the automatic synthesis of hierarchical control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (F.M.S.)

Abstract

Based on our last results concerning a methodological approach for the analysis and the synthesis of Flexible Cells in Manufacturing, we propose in this paper to present some basic ideas on which we are currently working for the automatic design of hierarchical control of F.M.S. Our approach is based both on the use of Coloured Adaptive Structured Petri-Nets (in order to describe the scheduling of Manufacturing tasks) and Artificial Intelligence Concepts to design such a net and to describe meta-rules for the control strategy.