Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"The main objective of this study is to design, develop, and investigate domain adaptive control architecture for advanced manufacturing systems. The proposed control architecture is a swarm-based, multi-agent system that exhibits adaptive and emergent behavior that has been inspired from social insects, such as wasps.

The proposed control architecture is built on a decentralized model, which does not require any user-defined control parameters, but rather employs stigmergic communication that results in emerging behavior with minimal negotiation overhead. Inspired from natural systems, the architecture is based on simple rules that self-adapt automatically based on the real-time status of the manufacturing system. A 3-layer modular software platform that includes MATLAB® codes, ARENA® simulation models, Visual Basic® modules, and MS ACCESS® database is developed to facilitate experimentation and benchmarking.

The proposed control architecture is applied to a variety of manufacturing domains and benchmarked against studies from the literature. A variety of experiments, involving internal and external dynamic disturbances, is performed. The experimental results clearly show that the proposed model is more reliable, adaptable, scalable, survivable, and robust, and outperforms all the benchmarked models and heuristics. This research adds to the literature the advantages of applying stigmergy as a means of communication among agents in a multi-agent system. The research clearly shows how the mathematical model developed for wasp lifecycle can be directly mapped and used to proactively control manufacturing systems"--Abstract, page iii.

Advisor(s)

Dagli, Cihan H., 1949-
Saygin, Can

Committee Member(s)

Enke, David Lee, 1965-
Grasman, Scott E. (Scott Erwin)
Miller, Ann K., 1947-2010

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Engineering Management

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 2006

Pagination

x, 105 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-103).

Rights

© 2006 Lakshmanan Meyyappan, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Restricted Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Flexible manufacturing systems Adaptive control systems Swarm intelligence

Thesis Number

T 9065

Print OCLC #

173220449

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