Improved methods for scheduling flexible manufacturing systems based on Petri nets and heuristic search
Bo HUANG
Yamin SUN
摘要：This paper proposes and evaluates two improved Petri net (PN)-based hybrid search strategies and their applications to flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling.The algorithms proposed in some previous papers,which combine PN simulation capabilities with A* heuristic search within the PN reachability graph,may not find an optimum solution even with an admissible heuristic function.To remedy the defects an improved heuristic search strategy is proposed,which adopts a different method for selecting the promising markings and reserves the admissibility of the algorithm.To speed up the search process,another algorithm is also proposed which invokes faster termination conditions and still guarantees that the solution found is optimum.The scheduling results are compared through a simple FMS between our algorithms and the previous methods.They are also applied and evaluated in a set of randomly-generated FMSs with such characteristics as multiple resources and alternative routes.
机标关键词：heuristic searchPetri netsflexible manufacturing systemsoptimum solutionsearch strategy
分类号：TP13(自动化基础理论)TL361(核反应堆工程)
论文发表日期：2005-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：6( 139-144 )
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