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Robust optimal control of single conveyor-serviced production station with uncertain service rate
HUANG Hao, TANG Hao, ZHOU Lei, CHENG Wenjuan
Journal of Computer Applications    2015, 35 (7): 2067-2072.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2015.07.2067
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The robust optimal control of single Conveyor-Serviced Production Station (CSPS) with uncertain service rate was researched. Under the cases where only the interval of service rate was given and the look-ahead range was controllable, the optimal robust control problem could be described as a mini-max problem by using Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) with uncertain parameters. Global optimization method was adopted to derive the optimal robust control policy when states were dependent. Firstly, the worst performance value was obtained under fixed policy by genetic algorithm. Secondly, according to the obtained worst performance value, the optimal robust control policy was achieved with simulated annealing algorithm. The simulation results show that there is little difference between optimal performance cost of the system whose service rate is fixed as the mean of interval and optimal robust performance cost of the CSPS system with uncertain service rate. Moreover, the difference is getting smaller when the uncertain interval narrows and it means that the global optimization algorithm works effectively.

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