Title
Compositional synthesis of supervisors in the form of state machines and state maps.
Abstract
This paper investigates the compositional abstraction-based synthesis of least restrictive, controllable, and nonblocking supervisors for discrete event systems that are given as a large number of finite-state machines. It compares a previous algorithm that synthesises modular supervisors in the form of state machines, with an alternative that records state maps after each abstraction step and uses these to control the system. The state map-based algorithm supports all abstraction methods used previously, and in addition allows for nondeterminism, hiding, and transition removal. It has been implemented in the software tool Supremica and applied to several large industrial models. The experimental results and the complexity analysis show that state maps can be computed efficiently and in many cases require less memory than state machine-based supervisors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.automatica.2016.10.012
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Discrete event systems,Compositional synthesis,Controller constraints and structure,Algorithms and software,Computational issues
Software tool,Abstraction,Control theory,Computer science,Finite-state machine,Modular design
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
1
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.47
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sahar Mohajerani1375.18
Robi Malik225326.13
Martin Fabian320427.91