Abstract
Supervisory controllers have traditionally coordinated the various resources of manufacturing systems, such as flexible manufacturing workcells, for the production of a priori set families of part types. This paper expands on this capability by allowing the control of the production of new part types side by side with previously defined and planned for nominal part types. The proposed basic workcell supervisory-control approach advocates the use of a pair of non-communicating independent supervisors, synthesized individually but working in concert, to achieve the production of existing and new part types: nominal and complementary supervisors, respectively. The nominal supervisor is responsible for controlling the behavior of the nominal system, producing the set of a priori planned-for part types, whereas the complementary supervisor controls the flow of the a priori unplanned-for new part types.
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