Decentralized control of discrete-event systems when supervisors observe particular event occurrences

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 384-388

  Huang, Ying ^a   Rudie, Karen ^b   Lin, Feng ^c  

^a Real Time Systems Inc   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Discrete event systems; Partial observation; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

CO-OBSERVABILITY; CONTROL DECISIONS; DISCRETE EVENT CONTROL; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; PARTIAL OBSERVATION; STANDARD VERSIONS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL;

OBSERVABILITY; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 62949238793     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.914234     Document Type: Article

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