A method for the synthesis of controllers to handle safety, liveness, and real-time constraints

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1543-1559

  Barbeau, Michel ^a,b   Kabanza, Froduald ^a,b   St Denis, Richard ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

languages; Discrete event systems; Metric temporal logic; Supervisory control; Synthesis algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCADA SYSTEMS;

CONTROL-DIRECTED BACKTRACKING METHOD; FORWARD-CHAINING SEARCH; METRIC TEMPORAL LOGIC (MTL);

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032203194     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.728871     Document Type: Article

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