13 research outputs found
Reduction of affine systems on polytopes
Consider an affine system with a polytope as state set. State trajectories are terminated when they reach a facet of the polytope and attempt to exit. The realization problem is considered based on the behavior of the system, i.e. the set of input-output trajectories on time-intervals of either finite or infinite length. The state set can be affinely reduced due to non-observability if and only if a subspace of the classical unobservable subspace, characterized using the normal vectors of the exit facets, is
nontrivial
Maximally permissive coordinated distributed supervisory control of nondeterministic discrete-event systems
In supervisor synthesis for discrete-event systems achieving nonblockingness is a major challenge for a large system. To overcome it we present an approach to synthesize a deterministic coordinated distributed supervisor under partial observation, where the plant is modeled by a collection of nondeterministic finite-state automata and the requirement is modeled by a collection of deterministic finite-state automata. Then we provide a sufficient condition to ensure the maximal permissiveness of a coordinated distributed supervisor generated by the proposed synthesis approach. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve
Control to facet by piecewise-affine output feedback
The control-to-facet problem plays an important role in the design of
feedback controllers for piecewise-affine hybrid systems on polytopes. In the litera-
ture, necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability by static state feedback exist.
In this paper, we extend these results to the case of continuous piecewise-affine out-
put feedback. For the construction of a controller, a triangulation of the output
polytope is made, that satisfies additional conditions, to guarantee compatibility
with the induced subdivision of the state polytope. In the state feedback case, the
use of this special type of triangulations was not required
Control to facet by piecewise-affine output feedback
The control-to-facet problem plays an important role in the design of feedback controllers for piecewise-affine hybrid systems on polytopes. In the literature, necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for solvability by static state feedback exist. In this paper, we extend these results to the case of continuous piecewise-affine static output feedback. For the construction of a controller, a triangulation of the output polytope is made which satisfies additional conditions to guarantee compatibility with the induced subdivision of the state polytope. In the state feedback case, the use of this special type of triangulation is not required
The synthesis of time optimal supervisors by using heaps-of-pieces
In many practical applications we are asked to compute a nonblocking supervisor that
not only complies with some prescribed safety and liveness requirements but also achieve
a certain time optimal performance such as throughput. In this paper we first introduce
the concept of supremal minimum-time controllable sublanguage and define a minimumtime
supervisory control problem, where the plant is modeled as a finite collection of
finite-state automata, whose events are associated with weights, which represent their
respective execution time. Then we show that the supremal minimum-time controllable
sublanguage can be obtained by a terminable algorithm, where the execution time of each
string is computed by using a technique extended from the theory of heaps-of-pieces
Coordinated distributed supervisory control
In supervisor synthesis achieving nonblockingness is a major computational challenge when a target system consists of a large number of local components. To overcome this difficulty we propose a coordinated distributed supervisor synthesis approach, where specifications are enforced by local supervisors. To avoid conflicting among local supervisors, coordinators are created based on automaton abstraction
Supervisory control of partially observed weighted discrete-event systems
When the Ramadge-Wonham supervisory control paradigm is applied to practical problems,
it is desirable to require a closed-loop system be finitely coreachable in the sense
that a marker state can be reached within a finite number of transitions regardless of
the current state. Furthermore, considering that actions in a real system usually carry
costs, it is desirable to synthesize a supervisor that incurs only a minimum cost. Pursuing
finite coreachability with a minimum cost is the main motivation for developing a theory
about optimal supervisory control of weighted discrete-event systems in the literature. In
this paper we follow the same line of optimal supervisory control but with a new focus
on partial observation, which is common in practical applications. We first define three
finitely-weighted supervisory control problems, namely (1) to decide the existence of a
finitely-weighted controllable and normal sublanguage; (2) to compute a finitely-weighted
controllable and normal sublanguage, when the answer to Problem (1) is affirmative; (3)
to compute the supremal minimum-weighted controllable and normal sublanguage, when
the answer to Problem (1) is affirmative. Then we provide concrete algorithms to solve
them
Maximum permissive coordinated distributed supervisory control of nondeterministic discrete-event systems
In supervisor synthesis achieving nonblockingness is a major computational challenge
when a target system consists of a large number of local components. To overcome
this difficulty we propose an approach to synthesize a coordinated distributed supervisor,
where the plant is modeled by a collection of nondeterministic finite-state automata
and the requirement is modeled by a collection of deterministic finite-state automata.
The synthesis is based on a previously developed automaton abstraction technique. We
provide a sufficient condition, which guarantees the maximum permissiveness of the synthesized
coordinated distributed supervisor. In addition, we show that the problem of
finding a coordinator with the minimum number of states is NP-hard
An algorithm for computing supremal nonblocking state-normal supervisors for nondeterministic systems
Recently supervisor synthesis for nondeterministic systems has gained more and more attention, owing to the potential computational advantage of using nondeterministic automata in modular/distributed synthesis. It is well known that, in the Ramadge/Wonham language-based supervisory control paradigm, the supremal nonblocking normal supervisor always exists (although may be empty) and is computable. In this paper we will show that, for a nondeterministic plant model and a deterministic specification, a similar entity called the supremal nonblocking state-normal supervisor also exists, which coincides with the supremal nonblocking normal supervisor when the plant model becomes deterministic. We then present a concrete algorithm to compute such a supervisor and analyze the relevant computational complexity