Orbital Petri Nets: A Novel Petri Net Approach
This addresses the space debris collision issue for orbital systems, but it appears incremental as it extends existing Petri Net methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the space debris collision problem by introducing orbital Petri Nets (OPN), a new Petri Net approach, and proves through mathematical investigation of two models that collisions can be prevented using a new firing sequence method.
Petri Nets is very interesting tool for studying and simulating different behaviors of information systems. It can be used in different applications based on the appropriate class of Petri Nets whereas it is classical, colored or timed Petri Nets. In this paper we introduce a new approach of Petri Nets called orbital Petri Nets (OPN) for studying the orbital rotating systems within a specific domain. The study investigated and analyzed OPN with highlighting the problem of space debris collision problem as a case study. The mathematical investigation results of two OPN models proved that space debris collision problem can be prevented based on the new method of firing sequence in OPN. By this study, new smart algorithms can be implemented and simulated by orbital Petri Nets for mitigating the space debris collision problem as a next work.