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| FullText URL | mfe_37_1_001_010.pdf |
| Author | Sotobayashi, Ken| Konishi, Masami| Nishi, Tatsushi| Imai, Jun| |
| Abstract | Auto Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are widely used in a semi-conductor fabricating factory and contribute to the stable production of a high quality semi-conductor products. In the near future, further expansion of the transportation system is expected accompanied with the rapid growth of semi-conductor industries. In such situation, the necessity of performing quick planning of transportation route and transportation control will be elevated. In this paper, practicable planning of the transportation route and transportation control are studied based on the decentralized agent method. Especially, the geometrical sizes of AGVs are considered in the determination of transportation routes and control strategy avoiding the occurrence of mutual collisions or deadlock of AGVs. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-11 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 10 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003457322 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_1_011_014.pdf |
| Author | Totsuji, Chieko| Limant, Muhammad S.| Tsuruta, Kenji| Totsuji, Hiroo| |
| Abstract | A theoretical approach which has been successful in reproducing results of molecular-dynamics simulations on dusty plasmas is applied to estimate the screening length and the electric charge of two-dimensional dust crystals of melamine particles in the discharge chamber experiment. It has been found that the screening length is of the same order of magnitude as the inter-particle distance and the electric charge decreases on increasing number density of dust particles. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-11 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 11 |
| End Page | 14 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015784816 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46972 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_1_051_060.pdf |
| Author | Namba, Akihiro| Toyota, Yoshitaka| Wada, Osami| Koga, Ryuji| |
| Abstract | This paper presents pulse timing control method to reduce electromagnetic emission from multiple signal interconnections. Pulse timing control gives intentional skew between signals. Higher order harmonics are canceled because of the difference of the phase between the signals. Using this property, pulse timing control can reduce the EMI in wide frequency range. In this paper, we show that radiated electromagnetic field from multiple signal lines reduces its intensity to the same level of the field from one line by using pulse timing control. The result of measurement shows that EMI from four differential transmission lines can be reduced more than 9 dB in the 200 MHz to 800 MHz frequency range. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-11 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 51 |
| End Page | 60 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015683518 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46975 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_001_004.pdf |
| Author | Sakakibara, Akira| Kanadani, Teruto| |
| Abstract | Effect of addition of Fe on the occurrence of serration in Al-12mass%Zn alloys was investigated. Specimens aged at 293K for various periods after quenching from various temperatures (T(Q)), 398K to 823K, were tensile-tested at room temperature. Serration occurred more easily and more remarkably with decreasing T(Q) for as-quenched specimens: in the case that T(Q)=448K serration was observed both for the binary and Fe added alloys, while in the case that T(Q)=573K none of the three alloys showed serration. For the binary alloy serration was observed only when the aging period was short enough, but addition of Fe to the binary alloy prolonged the aging period where serration could be recognized. Aging rate measured by hardness was remarkably retarded with the increase of Fe addition. These results confirm the interpretation that the serration in Al-Zn alloy occurs in the early stage of aging where small GP zones or solute clusters are formed. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 4 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016019142 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46976 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_005_012.pdf |
| Author | Abe, Takeji| Sato, Takashi| |
| Abstract | Cork is a material that has many characteristics, for instance, light weight, elasticity, insulation against heat, impermeability for liquid, and so forth. There are two types of cork, the natural and the agglomerated corks. In the present paper, compression tests of the natural and the agglomerated cork specimens were carried out. The compression test were done in various directions. Compressive stress was measured by a original compression apparatus, and stress-strain curves were obtained in various directions of the cork specimens. In the natural cork, there are differences between the radial and the non-radial direction. The recovery of dimensions after compression was also studied in respective directions. The structure of the deformed surface was observed by a scanning electron microscope. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 5 |
| End Page | 12 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015999990 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46977 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_013_027.pdf |
| Author | Shibuta, Taizo| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | Nowadays, various kind of reactor furnaces are widely used for the production in industry. The raw materials charged into the furnace generate reaction heat produced by blowing gas. Generally speaking, the reaction heat generated in the furnace is remarkably high. Therefore the occurrence of an inappropriate temperature distribution in the furnace may make damege or serious accident of the furnace. This is the motivation of furnace control. The author is considering the application of studied results to the furnace control of Blast Furnace in steel industry. To the propose, the approximated and simplified Macro Model of the Blast Furnace is constructed which has the function of representation of qualitative characteristics of the furnace in dynamical sense. The furnace temperature, distribution greatly effects both on the producting and the product quality of the furnace. Needless to say, stable furnace operation is indispensable for the economical prosperity of the industry. In this paper, macro simulation of the furnace is developed to support the analysis and design of the furnace control. Using the simulator, the stability and the control characteristics for inner furnace temperature distribtion are analised quantitatively. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 13 |
| End Page | 27 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015999991 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46978 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_029_044.pdf |
| Author | Imajo, Shuya| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | In hot strip rolling mills, the looper control system is automated. However, the looper's behavior tends to be unstable in threading. Therefore, human expert always intervenes and stabilizes the looper's behavior by tuning PID gains and interposing manipulation variable of looper control system. In this paper, we propose a method based on the recurrent neural network to express PID gains tuning action by human. Furthermore, we propose two methods to update the model by learning. To check the effectiveness of the proposed learning methods, numerical simulation applied to the looper height control is carried out. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 29 |
| End Page | 44 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016037880 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46979 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_045_060.pdf |
| Author | Xu, Wei| Zhao, Y.| Horikane, T.| Hayata, T.| Tosuji, H.| Kagawa, Y.| |
| Abstract | Resistivity distribution sounding of the non-homogeneous earth is important for electrical ground system design, geophysical prospecting and survey or monitoring the groundwater flow level. The previous paper presented that the direct inversion of the electric resistivity distribution in a domain is possible from the impedance data measured over the domain boundary using the dual reciprocity boundary element modelling in two-dimentional field [1]. The proposed inversion technique is extended to the distribution in three-dimensional space [2]. This technique is capable of inversion without iteration and meshing of the domain. Electric field with spatially varying conductivity is governed by Laplace equation, which is transformed into a Poisson-type expression with an inhomogeneous term involving the conductivity difference as a source term. Dual reciprocity method (DRM) is a technique for transforming the domain integral associated with the inhomogeneous term in Poisson equation into the boundary integral expression. The resistivity distribution in the field can thus be identified from the data observed over its boundary, for which some examples are demonstrated [2]. In this paper, the examination is extended to the case where only the data measured over the single surface is used for the inversion. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 45 |
| End Page | 60 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016037881 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46980 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_061_066.pdf |
| Author | Vaillancourt, Chico| |
| Abstract | In this case study, I will analyse and discuss the results of a survey concerning motivation towards learning a second language conducted in one Danish high school. The students surveyed were between the ages of 13-18. This section, part two of the study, was conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark. This region of the world was chosen because bilingualism is quite common there and a large portion of the school-aged community is learning a second language and often a third and even a fourth. Denmark, a European country, is different than Canada (Case Study-Part 1.) because it neighbours many countries, which use different mother tongues. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 61 |
| End Page | 66 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003457333 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46981 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_067_072.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | An active form of Cry4A is a heterodimer of the 20- and 45-kDa fragments that are derived from the 130-kDa Cry4A protoxin. To investigate the function of these two fragments, several deletion mutants were constructed and expressed in E.coli as the GST (glutathione-S-transferase) fusion proteins. The results of the bioassay against Culex pipiens larvae showed that the interaction of two fragments of Cry4A was necessary for the toxicity, and that the C-terminal 67 amino acids of the 20-kDa fragment corresponding to the helices α4 and α5 were involved in determining the insecticidal activity. Surprisingly the lack of helix α5 did not affect the toxicity to C. pipiens, suggesting that the role of helix α5 of Cry4A was different from that postulated in the case of Cry4A toxins. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 67 |
| End Page | 72 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016019143 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46982 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_073_087.pdf |
| Author | Nogami, Yasuyuki| Morikawa, Yoshitaka| |
| Abstract | Public key cryptosystem has many uses, such as to sign digitally, to realize electronic commerce. Especially, RSA public key cryptosystem has been the most widely used, but its key for ensuring sufficient security reaches about 2000 bits long. On the other hand, elliptic curve cryptosystem(ECC) has the same security level with about 7-fold smaller length key. Accordingly, ECC has been received much attention and implemented on various processors even with scarce computation resources. In this paper, we deal with an elliptic curve which is defined over extension field F(p2c) and has a prime order, where p is the characteristic and c is a non negative integer. In order to realize a fast software implementation of ECC adopting such an elliptic curve, a fast implementation method of definition field F(p2c) especially F(p8) is proposed by using a technique called successive extension. First, five fast implementation methods of base field F(p2) are introduced. In each base field implementation, calculation costs of F(p2)-arithmetic operations are evaluated by counting the numbers of F(p)-arithmetic operations. Next, a successive extension method which adopts a polynomial basis and a binomial as the modular polynomial is proposed with comparing to a conventional method. Finally, we choose two prime numbers as the characteristic, and consider several implementations for definition field F(p8) by using five base fields and two successive extension methods. Then, one of these implementations is especially selected and implemented on Toshiba 32-bit micro controller TMP94C251(20MHz) by using C language. By evaluating calculation times with comparing to previous works, we conclude that proposed method can achieve a fast implementation of ECC with a prime order. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 73 |
| End Page | 87 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015999992 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46983 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_37_2_089_097.pdf |
| Author | Iokibe, Kengo| Toyota, Yoshitaka| Wada, Osami| Koga, Ryuji| |
| Abstract | Aerosol extinction coefficients of clouds and dust were continuously measured in the year of 2002 with a polarized Mie-scattering lidar controlled by an automatic and remotely operating system utilizing internet services. Measured cloud extinctions were greater than 1.0 km(-1) below the altitude 6 km, 0.17 - 1.0 km(-1) between 6 and 10 km, and 0.091 - 0.3 km(-1) beyond 10km. Extinction of dust were 0.10 and 0.20 km(-1) for Asian dust and 0.057 km(-1) for urban dust. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2003-03 |
| Volume | volume37 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 89 |
| End Page | 97 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003457336 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46997 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_017_028.pdf |
| Author | Endo, Shinichiro| Konishi, Masami| |
| Abstract | Small Scale Hydroelectric Power Generation is made using the water drop caused by the gradient difference between that of the river and that of the penstock. The water flow in this system apt to vary with time. Especially, at the time of the flood or that of the dry, the flow in the water stream varies largely. To realize the stable generation, it is necessary to maintain the water level in the head tank located in the mid way in the stream channel at a constant level. In this paper, variation of water level is forecasted using two-tank model for the penstock and the head tank and the water level control algorithm is proposed by deadbeat control. The effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated beforehand using the simulation program of the water environment for the hydroelectric generation system. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 17 |
| End Page | 28 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497023 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46998 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_029_039.pdf |
| Author | Imai, Jun| Wada, Kiyoshi| |
| Abstract | A procedure for control-oriented modeling is proposed for large flexible structures with unknown modal parameters. Techniques on quantification of errors in modal truncated nominal models are developed for the case where a finite number of upper and lower bounds of the unknown modal parameters are given. A feasible set of systems matching the conditions is introduced, and then error bounds covering the feasible set are established in the frequency domain. The bounds are easily checked using linear programming for any user-specified frequency. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is illustrated by numerical study on an ideal flexible beam example. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 29 |
| End Page | 39 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80012887118 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46999 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_041_049.pdf |
| Author | Totsuji, Hiroo| Kishimoto, Tokunari| Totsuji, Chieko| Tsuruta, Kenji| |
| Abstract | The ground state of spherical clusters of charged particles of one species confined by the three-dimensional parabolic potential is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations with the system size from N = 5000 to N = 1.2 × 10(5) . The cohesive energy per particle is compared between the shell-structured clusters and spherical finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces, the former and the latter being the ground states for small systems and for the large enough systems, respectively. It is shown that, when N > N(c)(N(c) > N), finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces (the shell structures) have stronger cohesion than the shell structures (finite bcc lattices with relaxed surfaces) and the critical value of the transition N(c) is estimated to be 10(4) < N(c) < 1.4 × 10(4) . The nucleation of the bcc lattice in the shell-structured cluster of 2 × 10(4) ions is observed. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 41 |
| End Page | 49 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015112663 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47000 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_051_057.pdf |
| Author | Vaillancourt, Chico| |
| Abstract | This is a brief essay on using kinesthetic approaches to learning English as a second language. In the essay, I briefly discuss teaching philosophy and 2 small-scale Technical Engineering projects that I have introduced and completed with my 4(th) year engineering students in the spring of 2001. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 51 |
| End Page | 57 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497026 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47005 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_1_117_121.pdf |
| Author | Shirosaki, Yuki| Tsuru, Kanji| Hayakawa, Satoshi| Osaka, Akiyoshi| Takashima, Seisuke| |
| Abstract | γ-Methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (γ-MPS) was grafted to silicone due to emulsion polymerization to induce Si-OH groups, in order to provide silicone with bioactivity spontaneous deposition of apatite in body fluid and to improve cytocompatibility. Apatite deposited on the grafted silicone within 7 days of soaking in 1.5 times as concentrated as the Kokubo solution. Osteoblastic cells (MC3T3-E1) were cultured on the specimens up to 7 days. After 5 days of culture, the number of MC3T3-E1 cells on the grafted specimen was much greater than that on the original specimen. These results indicated that the biocompatibility of silicone elastomer was improved by the grafting γ-MPS. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2001-12 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue1 |
| Start Page | 117 |
| End Page | 121 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497031 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47021 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_2_001_006.pdf |
| Author | Sakakibara, Akira| Kanadani, Teruto| Tashiro, Tsutomu| Yoshioka, Kazumi| |
| Abstract | The effect of heat-treatment conditions on occurrence of serration in Al-Zn alloys was investigated. Specimens were aged for various times up to 2.6Ms at 293K or 273K after quenching from various temperatures (T(Q)), 473K to 853K, and tensile-tested at room temperature. Serration occurred more easily according as T(Q) became lower and the aging time became shorter: in the case that T(Q)=473K serration was observed even after aging for 2.6Ms, while in the case that T(Q)=773K serration did not occur irrespective of aging conditions. Serration was also recognized when the specimens were furnace-cooled from 773K to room temperature. These results together with those obtained by the electrical resistometry suggest that the serration in the low'concentrated Al-Zn alloy is caused by the formation of small GP zones whose Guinier radius is less than 1nm or some sort of solute clusters. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-03 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 6 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015497758 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47022 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_2_007_013.pdf |
| Author | Abe, Takeji| Nagao, Makoto| Ohta, Tomoyuki| Nagayama, Noriyuki| |
| Abstract | It is important to study the microscopic deformation behavior of inhomogeneous material, for most engineering materials are inhomogeneous. The aim of the present study is to clarify by numerical analysis some features of microscopic plastic strain distributions, the mean flow stress and the material factors affecting on it. The rigid-plastic solution is important not only for plastic deformation problems with large strain, but also for creep deformation problems through the plastic analogy in the creep analysis. The effects of material parameter and loading conditions on the deformation behavior of the material are examined and discussed based on the result of calculation. The effects of the aspect ratio of the inhomogeneous regions on the deformation mode are studied. The patterns of the strain concentration and the averaged flow stress of the inhomogeneous material are also discussed. The results of rigid-plastic material are compared with those of the elastic material. |
| Keywords | Plasticity Deformation Inhomogeneous Material Strain Concentration Coefficient Rigid-Plastic FEM |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-03 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 7 |
| End Page | 13 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 120003497044 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/47023 |
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| FullText URL | mfe_36_2_015_042.pdf |
| Author | Ohtani, Ryuji| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | In this paper, we studied a planning and scheduling of production system considering demand changes. In the proposed system, planning part determines lot-size and amount of jobs in production. On the other hand, scheduling part determines the production sequence of jobs. In order to treat with the demand changes, both planning and scheduling should work well simultaneously. In the proposed system, preset and real time production control system is newly constructed from the view point of adaptive control. In the system, production planning is modified when the difference between production amount and demand becomes large. Moreover, production schedule is regenerated when the determined schedule is deviated from the prospected one. The scheduling system is characterized as the autonomous decentralized optimization system where each job works as agent and agent searches its appropriate starting time of processing. The effectiveness of the proposed system is confirmed by numerical examples. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2002-03 |
| Volume | volume36 |
| Issue | issue2 |
| Start Page | 15 |
| End Page | 42 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | 英語 |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80015471209 |
