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This paper proposes a fault-tolerant flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that features a dual-level fault tolerance mechanism at both the workcell and system levels to enhance reliability. The workcell controller was implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Reconfigurable duplication was used as the first level of fault tolerance at the workcell level. It was shown how to detect and recover from FPGA faults such as Single Event Upsets (SEUs), hard faults, and Single Event Functional Interrupts (SEFIs). The prototype of the workcell controller was successfully implemented using two Zybo Z7-20 AMD boards and an Arduino DUE. Petri Nets were used to prove that controller reliability increased by 346% after 1440 operational hours. The second level of fault tolerance was at the FMS level; the Supervisor (SUP) took over the responsibilities of any malfunctioning workcell controller. Riverbed software was used to prove that the system successfully met the end-to-end delay requirements. Finally, Matlab showed that there is a further increase in performability.
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; Daoud, Ramez M 2
; Amer, Hassanein H 2 ; Sallez Yves 3
; Ragai, Hani F 1
1 Electronics and Electrical Communications Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt; [email protected]
2 Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo (AUC), New Cairo 11835, Egypt; [email protected] (R.M.D.); [email protected] (H.H.A.)
3 LAMIH, UMR CNRS 8201, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 59300 Valenciennes, France; [email protected]