Analysing the Impact of Rescheduling Time in Hybrid Manufacturing Control

José-Fernando Jimenez Gordillo , Gabriel Zambrano Rey , Abdelghani Bekrar (1) , Damien Trentesaux (1) , Paulo Leitão

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

Hybrid manufacturing control architectures merge the benefits of hierarchical and heterarchical approaches. Disturbances can be handled at upper or lower decision levels, depending on the type of disturbance, its impact and the time the control system has to react. This paper focuses particularly on a disturbance handling mechanism at upper decision levels using a rescheduling manufacturing method. Such rescheduling is more complex that the offline scheduling since the control system must take into account the current system status, obtain a satisfactory performance under the new conditions, and also come up with a new schedule in a restricted amount of time. Then, this paper proposes a simple and generic rescheduling method which, based on the satisfying principle, analyses the trade-off between the rescheduling time and the performance achieved after a perturbation. The proposed approach is validated on a simulation model of a realistic assembly cell and results demonstrate that adaptation of the rescheduling time might be beneficial in terms of overall performance and reactivity.

Mots clés: Rescheduling time; Manufacturing control; Reactivity

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

José-Fernando Jimenez Gordillo, Gabriel Zambrano Rey, Abdelghani Bekrar, Damien Trentesaux, Paulo Leitão. Analysing the Impact of Rescheduling Time in Hybrid Manufacturing Control. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing, 694, Springer International Publishing, pp.225-236, 2017, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-51100-9_20⟩. ⟨hal-03415266⟩