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Studying flexible manufacturing systems via deterministic control problems

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Recent Advances in Control and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences ((LNCIS,volume 214))

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We deduce control equations governed by ordinary differential equations that determine the moments of the inventory levels in a flow control model of a flexible manufacturing system. Then we discuss how to use these control equations to study the expected inventory level set and the optimal inventory level control problem with quadratic cost functions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Western Michigan University, 49008, Kalamazoo, MI

    Qiji J. Zhu

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Zhu, Q.J. (1996). Studying flexible manufacturing systems via deterministic control problems. In: Yin, G., Zhang, Q. (eds) Recent Advances in Control and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015118

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