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OR SPECTRUM
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 421-443Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-006-0046-3
Keywords
colored-timed resource-oriented Petri net; deadlock; deadlock-free scheduling; automated manufacturing systems
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This paper addresses the problem of real-time deadlock-free scheduling for a semiconductor track system. The system is required to process wafers continuously, cassette by cassette. The process is not necessarily a repeated one. In addition, the system is deadlock-prone and its modules are failure-prone. Thus, real-time scheduling approaches are required to achieve high-performance. The problem can be solved in a hierarchical way. A deadlock avoidance policy is developed for the system as a lower-layer controller. With the support of the deadlock avoidance policy, heuristic rules are proposed to schedule the system in real-time. An effective modeling tool, colored-timed resource-oriented Petri net, is presented. It is shown that with this model we can schedule a system to achieve satisfactory results in real-time. This method is tolerant to module failures.
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