Automatic Adaptive Scheduling of Processing in Multimachine Cells

本SBIR第一阶段提案的目标是研究实时自动调度多机器综合体的可行性，并实施统一的计算机系统，为自动化系统提供新的调度工具。将研究通过将计划生成和再生任务与计划适应/恢复任务分离的实时调度。将探讨启发式方法在自动确定可变重调度周期、调度适应/恢复程序和调度再生程序方面的有效性。这项研究应该导致一个新的软件产品，并受到来自当前软件产品应用程序的用户需求的推动，FACTOR，它提供了车间调度工具。FACTOR是在先前的SBIR拨款下开发的。如果第一阶段的研究成功，将提交第二阶段的提案。

The objective of this SBIR Phase I proposal is to study the feasibility of automatically scheduling multi-machine complexes on a real-time basis and implementing a unified computer system to provide new scheduling tools in automated systems. Real-time scheduling by separating schedule generation and regeneration tasks from schedule adaptation/recovery tasks will be investigated. The effectiveness of heuristics to automatically determine variable rescheduling periods, schedule adaptation/recovery procedures, and schedule regeneration procedures will be explored. This research should lead to a new software product and is motivated by user requirements derived from applications of a current software product, FACTOR, which provides shop floor scheduling tools. FACTOR was developed under a prior SBIR grant. If this Phase I research is successful, a Phase II proposal will be submitted.