Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems - Moving Decisions Closer to Actions

Ahmed Khoumsi, Hicham Chakib

2014

Abstract

In decentralized control of discrete event systems, two main agents contribute to the computation of decisions: local supervisors and fusion modules. The local supervisors process the information detected on the plant and its environment, and transmit their results to the fusion modules. The latter process what is received from the local supervisors in order to decide actions to be applied to the plant. In the existing decentralized control architectures, the local supervisors execute complex operations, while the fusion modules execute simple operations. In the present article, we propose to move the decision computation complexity from local supervisors to fusion modules, that is what we term: moving decisions closer to actions. We justify this movement of decision and develop a simple architecture based on it. With the proposed architecture, the local supervisors are simple local observers, while all decisions are computed by the fusion modules. We characterize the class of languages achievable with the new architecture and compare it with the classes of languages achievable with the existing decentralized architectures and the centralized architecture.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khoumsi A. and Chakib H. (2014). Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems - Moving Decisions Closer to Actions . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-040-6, pages 280-287. DOI: 10.5220/0005010702800287

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco14,
author={Ahmed Khoumsi and Hicham Chakib},
title={Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems - Moving Decisions Closer to Actions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={280-287},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005010702800287},
isbn={978-989-758-040-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems - Moving Decisions Closer to Actions
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
AU - Khoumsi A.
AU - Chakib H.
PY - 2014
SP - 280
EP - 287
DO - 10.5220/0005010702800287