A Distributed Control Approach to Automated Manufacturing Systems With Complex Routes and Operations Using Petri Nets

The development of efficient solutions for deadlock problem in large-scale automated manufacturing systems (AMSs) is an issue of increasing interest in the scientific community, largely because of the nonapplicability of most existing approaches as AMS grows in size. Furthermore, much of these approaches is focused on systems with either assembly operations or flexible routes, implying that generalizing these existing results to more complex...