Title
Remarks On The Difficulty Of Top-Down Supervisor Synthesis
Abstract
This paper shows that language based top-down supervisor synthesis of Ramadge-Wonham supervisory control theory is in general not feasible. We show this as a direct consequence of the undecidability result of Decomposable Subset problem (and its prefix closed version), which in turn is a corollary of the undecidability result of Trace Closed Subset problem. Essentially, it is in general not possible to decide in finite amount of time whether there exists a string in a regular language such that all those strings indistinguishable from it are contained in the same language. We bring these results to the attention of control community and investigate the decidability status of some other related problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICARCV.2012.6485170
2012 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS & VISION (ICARCV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed control, decomposable subset, supervisory control, top-down design
Supervisor,Discrete mathematics,Formal language,Algebra,Existential quantification,Computer science,Control theory,Supervisory control theory,Decidability,Prefix,Regular language,Corollary
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2474-2953
1
0.37
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liyong Lin1136.75
Rong Su231845.41
Alin Stefanescu320917.79