Sizing, Cycle Time and Plant Control Using Dioid Algebra
Saïd Amari, Isabel Demongodin, Jean Jacques Loiseau · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Using an industrial process from the car sector, we show how dioid algebra may be used for the performance evaluation, sizing, and control of this discrete-event dynamic system. Based on a Petri net model as an event graph, max-plus algebra and min-plus algebra permit to write linear equations of the behavior. From this formalism, the cycle time is determined and an optimal sizing is characterized for a required cyclic behavior. Finally, a strict temporal constraint the system is subject to is reformulated in terms of inequalities that the (min, +) system should satisfy, and a control law is designed so that the controlled system satisfies the constraint.