An Efficient Siphon-Based Deadlock Prevention Policy for a Class of Generalized Petri Nets

YiFan Hou, Mi Zhao, Ding Liu, Liang Hong
2016 Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society  
We propose a new deadlock prevention policy for an important class of resource allocation systems (RASs) that appear in the modeling of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). The model of this class in terms of generalized Petri nets is, namely, S4PR. On the basis of recent structural analysis results related to the elementary siphons in generalized Petri nets on one hand and an efficient deadlock avoidance policy proposed for the class of conjunctive/disjunctive (C/D) RASs on the other hand,
more » ... show how one can generate monitors to be added to a net system such that all its strict minimal siphons aremax′-controlled and no insufficiently marked siphon is generated. Thereby, a new, simple, and more permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor synthesis method for S4PR is established.
doi:10.1155/2016/8219424 fatcat:iaa64bk5gjb2bjkjzmzkqy7dlu