.... In Section 2, we develop a general synthesis approach for deadlock prevention in G-systems, and provide an illustrative example to demonstrate the proposed deadlock prevention approach in detail. A typical case study is given in Section 3 to show the applicability of the proposed method, and comparison study...

... Deadlock prevention Elementary siphon Flexible manufacturing system Petri net A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a conglomeration of computer numerically controlled machine tools, buffers, robots, automated guided vehicles and served by a material-handling system (Dymarek and Dzitkowski...