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

小行星9503992 本计画的目标是：（1）提供一个丰富的博士后研究环境，将先前在动态系统的分散式即时控制的工作，延伸至制造自动化的问题领域;（2）在分布式控制领域为小型工厂的开发项目做出贡献，及（3）为助理教授提供一个途径，让他扩阔对大学内多个单位的各种研究课题的认识。 鉴于机械致动器和机制的相对恒定的成本与计算机的价格、尺寸和性能的持续进步形成对比，计算过程不可避免地变得像其机械对应物一样普遍和分布。该研究项目的目的是“开始探索建立这种系统的科学方法。具体地说，分布式实时控制系统将主要用于支持高度模块化（机械硬件，计算硬件和软件）的微型装配系统。所提出的控制器架构利用事件驱动模型进行并行处理，以提供必要的高水平的软件和硬件模块化，这两者将允许快速和有效的系统开发和重新配置，而不会由于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. ***