• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

The Flexible Management System (FMS) consists of parallel and concurrent machines, pieces of equipment, and carrying systems classified as buffers, tools, and routers, respectively. The concurrent flow of multiple productions in a system is competed with one another for resources and this resulting competition can cause a deadlock in FMS. Since a deadlock is a condition in which the excessive demand for the resources being used by others causes activities to stop, it is very important to detect and prevent a deadlock. Herein a new algorithm has been studied in order to detect and prevent deadlocks, after defining a relationship between the general places and resource share places in Petri nets like as DAPN: Deadlock Avoidance Petri Net. For presenting the results, the suggested algorithms were also adapted to the models that demonstrated FMS features.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.213-220
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• 2008

The object of this paper is to propose a method to deal with the problem of modeling user specifications in approaches based on supervisory control and Petri nets. However, most of Petri Net approaches are based on forbidden states specifications, and these specifications are suitable the use of tool such as the reachability graph. But these methods were not able to show the user specification easily and these formalisms are generally limited by the combinatorial explosion that occurs when attempting to model complex systems. Herein, we propose a new efficient method using FSSTP (Forbidden Sequences of State-Transitions Problem) and theory of region. Also, to detect and avoid the deadlock problem in control process, we use DAPN method (Deadlock Avoidance Petri nets) for solving this problem in control model.