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- Patent Title: Petri net-based optimal one-wafer cyclic scheduling of treelike hybrid multi-cluster tools
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Application No.: US14919720Application Date: 2015-10-21
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Publication No.: US10073444B2Publication Date: 2018-09-11
- Inventor: Naiqi Wu , Fajun Yang , Yan Qiao , Mengchu Zhou
- Applicant: Macau University of Science and Technology
- Applicant Address: MO Macau
- Assignee: Macau University of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: Macau University of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: MO Macau
- Agency: Spruson & Ferguson (Hong Kong) Limited
- Main IPC: G05B19/41
- IPC: G05B19/41 ; G05B19/418

Abstract:
Since single and dual-arm tools behave differently, it is difficult to coordinate their activities in a hybrid multi-cluster tool that is composed of both single- and dual-arm tools. Aiming at finding an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule for a treelike hybrid multi-cluster tool whose bottleneck tool is process-bound, the present work extends a resource-oriented Petri net to model such system. By the developed Petri net model, to find a one-wafer cyclic schedule is to determine robot waiting times. By doing so, it is shown that, for any treelike hybrid multi-cluster tool whose bottleneck tool is process-bound, there is always a one-wafer cyclic schedule. Then, computationally efficient algorithms are developed to obtain the minimal cycle time and the optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule. Examples are given to illustrate the developed method.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170083009A1 Petri Net-Based Optimal One-Wafer Cyclic Scheduling of Treelike Hybrid Multi-Cluster Tools Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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