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Fault Adaptive Workload Allocation For Complex Manufacturing Systems, Charlie B. Destefano
Fault Adaptive Workload Allocation For Complex Manufacturing Systems, Charlie B. Destefano
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This research proposes novel fault adaptive workload allocation (FAWA) strategies for the health management of complex manufacturing systems. The primary goal of these strategies is to minimize maintenance costs and maximize production by strategically controlling when and where failures occur through condition-based workload allocation.
For complex systems that are capable of performing tasks a variety of different ways, such as an industrial robot arm that can move between locations using different joint angle configurations and path trajectories, each option, i.e. mission plan, will result in different degradation rates and life-expectancies. Consequently, this can make it difficult to predict when a …