Optimal control of hybrid manufacturing systems by log-exponential smoothing aggregation

Abstract

This paper studies new optimal control policies for solving complex decision-making problems encountered in industrial hybrid systems in a manufacturing setting where critical jobs exist in a busy structure. In such setting, different dynamical systems interlink each other and share common functions for smooth task execution. Entities arriving at shared resources compete for service. The interactions of industrial hybrid systems become more and more complex and need a suitable controller to achieve the best performance and to obtain the best possible service for each of the entities arriving at the system. To solve these challenges, we propose an optimal control policy to minimize the operational cost for the manufacturing system. Furthermore, we develop a hybrid model and a new smoothing algorithm for the cost balancing between the quality and the job tardiness by finding optimal service time of each job in the system.