N. Viswanadham
  INAE Distinguished Professor
  Indian Institute of Science
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Research > MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
         
BOOKS

  1. N.Viswanadham and Y. Narahari, Performance Modelling of Automated Manufacturing Systems, Prentice Hall, USA, 592 pages, 1992.

EDITED BOOK VOLUMES

  1. N.Viswanadham and V.S. Borkar, Recent Advances in Modeling and Control of Stochastic Systems, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1991.

  2. V.V.S. Sarma, N.Viswanadham, B.L.Deekshatulu, and B. Yegnanarayana, Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Expert Systems in the Indian Context, Tata McGraw Hill, India, 1991.

  3. S.S. Keerthi, Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Computing and Intelligent Systems, Proc. of the Silver Jubile Workshop, Tata McGraw Hill, India, 1993.

  4. N.Viswanadham, Perspectives in Global Science and Technology Communications, Proc. of a Seminar held at INSA, Indian National Science Academy, and New Delhi, India, 1998.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, On the invariants of coloured Petri nets, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vol. 222-Advances in Petri nets, 1985, pp 330-345, Springer Verlag, Germany.

  2. M. Kamath and N.Viswanadham, Applications of Petri net-based models in the modeling and analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, IEEE press tutorial edited by Alan. A. Desrochers on Modeling and control of automated manufacturing systems, 1990, USA, pp262-267(reprinted from 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

  3. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Flexible manufacturing systems: Petri-net modeling, analysis and performance evaluation, Supplementary Volume 1, Systems and Control Encyclopedia, Pergamon Press, 1990, pp 279--283.

  4. N.Viswanadham, Y. Narahari, and R. Ram, Performability of automated manufacturing systems, Advances in Control and Dynamical Systems, Vol.47, pp. 77--120, Academic Press, USA, (Ed, C. T. Leondes, 1991).

  5. K.R. Pattipati, N.Viswanadham, and R. Mallubhatla, Discrete--time Markov reward models of production systems, Vol.73, 1995, IMA volumes in mathematics and applications, Discrete event systems, manufacturing systems, and communication networks'', Ed. P. R. Kumar and P. P. Varaiya, pp.149--176, USA.

  6. Shashi M Sharma and N.Viswanadham, Simulated annealing approach to group technology, In "Communications, computation, control and signal processing: A Tribute to Thomas Kailath, Eds. A. Paulraj, V.Roychowdhury, and C D Scaper, Kluwer Academic, USA, 1997.

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Y. Narahari, and N.Viswanadham, A Petri net approach to modelling and analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, Annals of Operations Research, Vol.3, 1985, pp 449-472, Baltzer, Switzerland.

  2. N.Viswanadham and Y. Narahari, Stochastic Petri net models for the performance evaluation of automated manufacturing systems, Information and Decision Technologies, Vol. 14, 125-142, 1988, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

  3. M. L. Kanth and N.Viswanadham, Reliability analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Vol 2, pp 145--162, 1989, Kluwer Academic, USA.

  4. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Performance modeling of flexible manufacturing systems, Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, India, Vol 35, No. 4, 1989. Pp. 221-236.

  5. N.Viswanadham, Y. Narahari, and T. L. Johnson, Dead-lock prevention and deadlock avoidance in flexible manufacturing systems using Petri Net models, IEEE Trans. Robotics Automation, Vol. 6, No. 6., 1990, pp 713--723, USA.

  6. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Stochastic analysis of versatile work centers, Sadhana: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 15, pp. 301--317, 1991, India.

  7. Y. Narahari , N.Viswanadham, C. R. Meenakshisundaram, and P. Hanumantha Rao, Integrated analytical models for flexible manufacturing systems, Sadhana: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 15, pp. 331--342,1991, India .

  8. Y. Narahari , N.Viswanadham and K. R. Krishna Prasad, Markovian models for deadlock analysis in automated manufacturing systems, Sadhana: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 15, pp. 343--353, 1991, India.

  9. E. Bhaskar Naidu and N.Viswanadham, An expert system for real-time scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems, Information and Decision Technologies, Vol.18, pp.151--170, 1992, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

  10. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Performance evaluation of cellular flexible manufacturing systems: A decomposition approach, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.57, No. 2, March 1992, pp.287--304, North Holland, Amsterdam.

  11. N.Viswanadham, Y. Narahari, and T.L.Johnson, Stochastic modelling of flexible manufacturing systems, Mathematical Computer Modeling, Vol.16, No.3, 1992, pp. 15--34, Pergamon Press, Great Britain.

  12. Y. Narahari, and N.Viswanadham, Transient analysis of manufacturing systems performance, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.10, No.2, April 1994, pp.230--244, USA.

  13. N.Viswanadham and R. Ram, Composite performance-dependability analysis of cellular manufacturing systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.10, No.2, April 1994, pp.245--258, USA.

  14. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Performability of automated manufacturing systems with centralized material handling, International Journal of Production Research, Vol.32, No.8, 1994, pp.1775--1799, England.

  15. M. Taneja, S. M. Sharma and N.Viswanadham, Location of quality control stations in manufacturing systems: a simulated annealing approach, Systems Practice, Vol.7, No.4, 1994, pp.367--380, England.

  16. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Performance analysis of flexible work centres using multiqueue models, International Journal of Production Research, Vol.33, No.9, 1995, pp.2511--2534, England.

  17. N.Viswanadham, K.R. Pattipati and V. Gopalakrishnan, Performability studies of automated manufacturing systems with multiple part types, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 11, No.5, pp 692-709, Oct.1995, USA.

  18. N.Viswanadham, S. M. Sharma, and M. Taneja, Inspection allocation in manufacturing systems using stochastic search algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol.26, No.2,pp 222-230, Mar.1996, USA.

  19. N.Viswanadham, and A. Lakshminarayanan, An agent-based information architecture for shop floor control, Sadhana, Vol 23, part 4, August 1998, pp359-376, India.

  20. Bharadwaj Veeravalli, G. Rajesh and N. Viswanadham, Design and Analysis of Optimal Material Distribution Policies in Flexible Manufacturing Systems using AGVs, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 40, No 12, pp 2937-2954, August 2002

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Analysis and synthesis of flexible manufacturing
    systems using Petri nets, First ORSA/TIMS Conf. on Flexible Manufacturing systems,
    August 1984, USA.

  2. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, An efficient scheme to compute place invariants in a Petri net, Proc. of the National Systems Conf. India,1984

  3. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, A Petri net-based investigation of deadlocks in
    automated manufacturing systems, Proc. of the TC 5 International Conference on
    CAD/CAM/CAE for industrial progress, Bangalore, India, June 29-30, 1985, Ed. V
    Rajaraman, North Holland 1986, pp. 119-131.

  4. M. Kamath and N.Viswanadham, Applications of Petri net based models in the modeling and analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, Proc. 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 1986, pp. 312-317, USA.

  5. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Coloured Petri net models for generalized flexible
    manufacturing systems, VII European Workshop on Applications and Theory of Petri
    nets, Oxford, England, July 1986 pp 243-263.

  6. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Performance modeling of local area distributed
    systems using deterministic stochastic Petri nets, Platinum Jubilee Conference of
    Electrical Engineering, IISc., India, Dec. 1986, pp 304-308.

  7. N.Viswanadham, Intelligent control of flexible manufacturing systems, Proc. of the
    National Workshop on Robotics, India, April 1987,pp 291-296

  8. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Performance evaluation using a class of Petri nets with deterministic and exponential firing times, Proc. of the IEEE TENCON Conference, Vol. 2, pp 482-486, Seoul, Korea, August 1987.

  9. N.Viswanadham and Y. Narahari, Coloured Petri net models for automated
    manufacturing systems, Proc. of 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 1985-1990, USA.

  10. N.Viswanadham and Y. Narahari, Performance modelling of local area network
    protocols, Preprints of the Indo-US Workshop on systems and signal processing, January 1988, Bangalore, India.

  11. Y. Narahari and N.Viswanadham, Performance Modeling of Integrated Manufacturing
    Systems, Preprints of the Indo-US Workshop on Systems and Signal Processing, January 1988, Bangalore, India.

  12. N.Viswanadham and K. Dean Minto, Robust observer design with application to fault
    detection, Proc. 1988 Automatic Control Conference, pp. 1393-1399, June 1988, USA.

  13. N.Viswanadham and T. L. Johnson, Fault detection and diagnosis of automated
    manufacturing systems, Proc. 1988 IEEE Decision and Control Conference, pp 2301-
    2306, December 1988, USA.

  14. N.Viswanadham and S. Sundar, Distributed Simulation of Flexible Manufacturing
    Systems, Proc. of IECON, pp 895-900, 1988, Singapore.

  15. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Regenerative simulation of flexible manufacturing
    systems, Proceedings of the 3rd TIMS/ORSA Conference on Flexible Manufacturing
    Systems, Boston, USA, August 1989,pp 313-318.

  16. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Performance evaluation of cellular flexible manufacturing systems: A decomposition approach, Proceedings of the IFAC-CIRP-IFIP-IFORS International Workshop on Decision Structures in Automated Manufacturing, Genova, Italy, Sept. 1989. pp. 37\9744.

  17. N.Viswanadham, T.L.Johnson and Y. Narahari, Performance analysis of automated
    manufacturing systems with blocking and deadlock, Proc. Second International Conf. on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, RPI, Troy, USA, May 1990, pp 64-68.

  18. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Generalized stochastic Petri Net analysis of a flexible work center with finite buffers, Proc. of the International Conference on Advances in Structural Testing, Analysis and Design (ICSTAD,, pp 874-879, July-Aug 1990, Bangalore, India

  19. N.Viswanadham, K. D. Minto, Fault-diagnosis in multirate sampled data systems, Proc. 1990 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 3666-3671, USA.

  20. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, Recent advances in queuing networks: A survey with
    applications to automated manufacturing, Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE 90), India, January 1991, Bangalore, pp 89--93.

  21. S. M. Sharma, N.Viswanadham, Fault diagnosis using signed digraphs: A neural network approach, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics, Bangalore, India, January 2-5, 1991, pp 675--683.

  22. N.Viswanadham, The analysis of automated manufacturing systems using Markov
    reward models, Proc. of the NSF workshop on hierarchical control for real-time
    scheduling of manufacturing systems, Oct 16--18, 1992, USA.

  23. N.Viswanadham, Krishna R Pattipati and V. Gopalakrishna, Composite performancedependability analysis of manufacturing systems producing multiple part types using Markov reward models, Proc 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 89-94, May 1993, USA.

  24. K.R.Pattipati, V. Gopalakrishna, R. Mallubhatha, and N.Viswanadham, Markov reward
    models and hyperbolic systems, Proc. of the second International workshop on
    performability modeling of computer and Communication systems, France, June 1993.

  25. R. Ram and N.Viswanadham, GSPN models for versatile multi-machine work centers
    with finite buffers, Proc 1993 International Conference on Systems, Man and
    Cybernetics, Vol.2, pp.186--191, October 1993, USA.

  26. R. Mallubhata, K. R. Pattipati, and N.Viswanadham, Moment recursions of the
    cumulative performance of production systems using discrete-time Markov reward
    models, Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Robotics Automation,
    pp.187--192, USA.

  27. V. Gopalakrishna, N.Viswanadham, K. R. Pattipati, Sensitivity analysis of failure-prone manufacturing systems, Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.181--186, USA.

  28. 28. M. Taneja and N.Viswanadham, Inspection allocation in manufacturing systems: A genetic algorithm approach, Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on
    Robotics Automation, pp.3537--3542, USA.

  29. 29. V. Gopalakrishna and N.Viswanadham, Simulation based performability analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, pp.861--868, July 1995

  30. S. M. Sharma and N.Viswanadham, Simulated annealing based approach to group
    technology, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, pp.611--618, July 1995

  31. S. M. Sharma and N.Viswanadham, Simulated annealing approach to machine loading problem in flexible assembly systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics \ Automation, April 1996, pp 3349-3353, USA.

  32. N.Viswanadham, Issues in the design of competitive manufacturing systems, Proceedings of the Agile Manufacturing Conference, Bangalore, India, Feb.1996

  33. N.Viswanadham, Y.C. Meng, and P. K. Ming, Competencies and capabilities: An
    analysis of the hard disk drive industry, Proceedings of the 4th ICCIM conference, Oct97, Singapore, Vol. 1, pp 55\9770.
 
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