Feasible Dynamic Reconfigurations of Petri Nets

Abstract

Reconfigurable systems have received much attention from academia and industry because they are efficient, agile, and reasonably priced, and they are the trend of all future systems. The chapter focuses on dynamic automatic reconfigurations of Control Systems to be classically modeled by Petri nets. Several modeling and verification methods for such systems are shown and compared before the introduction of the research work on feasible dynamic reconfigurations and the implementation of manufacturing systems based on Petri nets. Three different reconfiguration scenarios can be applied at run-time to such systems: Addition/Removal of places, Addition/Removal/Update of transitions, or finally, the simple modification of the initial marking. Three formal modules are defined accordingly, which allow the reconfigurations of the system’s Petri nets model: the first module to dynamically change places of the model, the second to dynamically reconfigure transitions within a given subset of places, and the third to modify the initial markings of places. To check the correct behavior of this architecture according to user requirements, the model checker SESA is applied for the verification of CTL-based properties of the proposed modules and also of the system. The contribution is applied to a real-world Benchmark Production System.