A distributed coordination approach to reconfigurable process control (Q2473301)

This book is organized as follows: It is divided into three parts, in part I, the problem development is discussed, in part II, a distributed reconfigurable process control approach is discussed and in part III, an assessment of the DRPC approach is discussed. In Chapter 1, Introduction, need for reconfigurable process control, motivation for research, outline of the DRPC approach, and the structure of the monograph are given. In Chapter 2, Reconfigurable process control research: Introduction, classification for manufacturing systems, distributed approaches in control, reconfigurable control research in other domains and summary are given. In Chapter 3, DRPC: Distributed reconfigurable process control: Introduction, addressing the needs for reconfigurable process control and introduction to the DRPC approach are given. In Chapter 4, Reconfigurable process control architecture: Introduction, specification of process elements in a RPC system migrating to process elements, an illustrative example, comments on the DRPC architecture and summary are given. In Chapter 5, An introduction model for reconfigurable process control: Introduction, specification of the interactions between process elements, an illustrative example, comments on the DRPC interaction model, and summary are given. In Chapter 6, A distributed algorithm for reconfigurable process: Introduction, distributed control problem, distributed coordination approach, problem decomposition, solution of two-stage problems, solution of the multi-stage problem, implementation and numerical examples, further extensions and summary are given. In Chapter 7, Application of distributed coordination approach -- a case example: Introduction, process description, problem description, application of the DRPC approach and summary are given. In Chapter 8, Conclusions: main contributions, limitations of the research, future challenges are given. The book is well organized and presents the most important classical and modern essentials of manufacturing control engineering. Suitable for senior under graduate and under graduate students as well as practical engineers and researchers interested in a distributed coordination approach to reconfigurable process control.