Symbolic Representation and Computation of Timed Discrete-Event Systems
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

In this paper, we symbolically represent timed discrete-event systems (TDES), which can be used to efficiently compute the supervisor in the supervisory control theory context. We model a TDES based on timed extended finite automata (TEFAs): an augmentation of extended finite automata (EFAs) by incorporating discrete time into the model. EFAs are ordinary automata extended with discrete variables, where conditional expressions and update functions can be attached to the transitions. The symbolic computations are based on binary decision diagrams (BDDs). We show how TEFAs can be represented by BDDs. The main feature of this approach is that the BDD-based fixed point computations are not based on tick models that have been commonly used in this area, leading to better performance in many cases. The approach has been implemented and applied to a simple case study and several large-scale benchmarks. Note to Practitioners-In today's industry, the control functions are implemented to a great extent manually by designing a candidate and verifying it towards different properties to ensure that the control function is satisfactory. Designing a control function manually makes it a tedious, error-prone and time consuming process. Another way is to do this process automatically, referred to as the synthesis method. In the synthesis method, the designers model the system's behavior and the desired properties and feed them to an algorithm that can automatically generate the control function. Supervisory Control Theory (SCT) provides a powerful framework for automatically synthesizing safe and flexible control functions, referred to as supervisors, that restrict the system only when it necessary. For large-scale systems, synthesis typically suffers of from the state space explosion problem, that is the required memory to represent the states of the system is more than the available memory. To handle real-time systems, in this paper, we also incorporate time in the theory and show how the supervisor can be efficiently computed for large-scale systems.

supervisory control theory (SCT)

AUTOMATA

Binary decision diagrams (BDD)

DESIGN

SUPERVISORY CONTROL

REAL-TIME

extended finite automata (EFA)

Författare

Sajed Miremadi

Chalmers, Signaler och system, System- och reglerteknik

Zhennan Fei

Chalmers, Signaler och system, System- och reglerteknik

Knut Åkesson

Chalmers, Signaler och system, System- och reglerteknik

Bengt Lennartson

Chalmers, Signaler och system, System- och reglerteknik

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

1545-5955 (ISSN) 15583783 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 1 6-19 6644325

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

Elektroteknik och elektronik

Reglerteknik

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

DOI

10.1109/tase.2013.2282895

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