CISE Postdoctoral Program: Distributed Real-Time Control for Rapidly Reconfigurable Manufacturing

9503992 Hollis这个项目的目标是：(1)为博士后研究人员提供一个丰富的环境，以便将以前在动态系统分布式实时控制方面的工作扩展到主要是制造自动化的问题领域；(2)在分布式控制领域为微型工厂的开发项目做出贡献；以及(3)为博士后研究人员提供一种手段，以扩大对大学几个单位内各种研究主题的接触。由于机械执行器和机构的成本相对恒定，与计算机在价格、大小和性能方面的持续进步形成对比，计算过程不可避免地变得像它们的机械对应物一样普及和分布。这一研究项目的目的是探索建设这类系统的有科学依据的方法。具体地说，分布式实时控制系统将主要被构建为支持高度模块化(在机械硬件、计算硬件和软件方面)的微型装配系统。所提出的控制器体系结构利用并行处理的事件驱动模型来提供必要的高水平的软件和硬件模块化，这两者都将允许快速而有效的系统开发和重新配置，而不会因不可预见的计算硬件或软件交互而导致灾难性故障的风险。***

9503992 Hollis The objectives of this project are: (1) providing the postdoctoral research associate with a rich environment for extending previous work in distributed real-time control of dynamic systems to the problem domain principally of manufacturing automation; (2) to contribute in the area of distributed control to the developing project in miniature factories, and (3) to provide a means for the associate to broaden the exposure to a wide variety of research topics within several units of the university. Given the relatively constant cost of mechanical actuators and mechanisms in contrast to the continuing advances in price, size, and performance of computers it is inevitable that computational processes become as pervasive and distributed as their mechanical counterparts. The intent of this research project is to `egin exploration of scientifically grounded approaches to the construction of such systems. Specifically, distributed real-time control systems will be constructed primarily to support a highly modular (in mechanical hardware, computational hardware, and software) miniature assembly system. The proposed controller architecture makes use of an event driven model for parallel processing to afford the necessarily high levels of software and hardware modularity, both of which will allow for rapid and efficient system development and reconfiguration without risking catastrophic failure due to unforeseen computational hardware or software interactions. ***