Distributed Control of a Manufacturing System with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata

Table 1

Operations of the AMS shown in Figure 1 and the resources involved.

Resource	Activities	Resources requested to be available
Storage area	Hold raw parts and finished parts	Robot 1
Robot 1	Load and unload the conveyor	Conveyor and storage area
Robot 2	Load and unload Buffer 1, Machine 1, and Machine 2	Buffer 1, Machine 1, and Machine 2
Robot 3	Load and unload Buffer 2, Machine 3, and conveyor	Buffer 2, Machine 3, and conveyor
Machine 1	Operation 1	Robot 2
Machine 2	Operation 2	Robot 2
Machine 3	Operation 3	Robot 3
Conveyor	Transport parts	Robot 1, Robot 2, and Robot 3
Buffer 1	Temporally hold parts	Robot 2
Buffer 2	Temporally hold parts	Robot 3