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A Real-Time Scheduling Approach for a Web-Based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing Platform
Providence, Rhode Island, USA May 19-May 22
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Hsin-hung Lin, National Chung Cheng University
Chih-wen Hsueh, National Chung Cheng University
Chung-hung Chen, National Chung Cheng University
Rapid prototyping is an automated manufacturing process that quickly builds physical models from CAD files of three-dimentional prototypes. It dramatically speeds up design and manufacturing process and substantially reduces the production cost. With the advanced Web technologies, rapid prototyping manufacturing systems can be further integrated and more effectively utilized. We have designed a distributed web platform where users can design prototypes, simulate manufacturing, and issue ordering request for real manufacturing through browser interfaces. However, an improper scheduling approach may degrade system utilization and throughput significantly. To solve this problem, we propose a real-time scheduling approach to maximize system utilization and minimize the average response time with the best effort. Using this approach, new requests can be accepted dynamically and all accepted requests can be finished before deadlines. We show that the scheduling overhead can be neglected and the average response time is very close to the optimal solution. With the proposed scheduling approach, the Web rapid prototyping platform is able to fully utilize Web resources for rapid prototyping manufacturing and the quality of service is significantly improved.
Index Terms:
Rapid prototyping, CORBA, non-preemptive real-time scheduling, quality of service
Citation:
Hsin-hung Lin, Chih-wen Hsueh, Chung-hung Chen, "A Real-Time Scheduling Approach for a Web-Based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing Platform," icdcsw, pp.42, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW'03), 2003
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