ORCA-FMS: a dynamic architecture for the optimized and reactive control of flexible manufacturing scheduling

• Published in: Computers in Industry
• Main Authors: Pach, Cyrille, Berger, Thierry, Bonte, Thérèse, Trentesaux, Damien
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Thermique, Ecoulements Mécaniques matériaux mise en forme PrOduction (TEMPO), Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC), Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201 (LAMIH), Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Hybrid control architecture; Dynamic control architecture; Intelligent manufacturing system; Reactive control; Scheduling; Flexible manufacturing system; [SPI.AUTO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic; Orca
• Online Access: https://uphf.hal.science/hal-03648952; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2014.02.005

[IF=2.691] International audience Reactive and effective hybrid manufacturing control architectures, combining hierarchy and heterarchy adapted to the current constraints of the industrial market and its environment were created. In this article, a new generic hybrid control architecture called ORCA (dynamic Architecture for an Optimized and Reactive Control) is first proposed. This hybrid architecture is able to dynamically and partially switch between a hierarchical predictive architecture and a heterarchical reactive architecture, if an event forbidding the planned behavior to be followed occurs. In this article, this architecture was applied to a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) problem and denoted ORCA-FMS. ORCA-FMS was tested on an existing manufacturing cell with simulations and real experiments to prove the applicability and the effectiveness of this kind of hybrid architecture in an industrial environment.