TWO OBSERVATIONS REGARDING COMMUNICATION IN DECENTRALIZED SUPERVISORY CONTROL
S.L. Ricker*
* Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Allison University, 67 York Street, Sackville, NB E4L 1E6 Canada lricker@mta.ca
Two assumptions regarding the synthesis of communication and control policies for decentralized discrete-event control problems are revisited. In particular, the construction of information structures that yield certain communication strategies relies on a specific relationship between the languages describing the plant and the legal behavior as well as the respective automata for these languages. An example that satisfies part of the initial assumption but generates a invalid information structure is presented. Secondly, clarification of an assumption on the finite nature of some additional procedures used in generating communication and control policies is provided.
Keywords: Decentralized control, discrete-event systems, communication protocols, automata theory
Session slot T-Th-M09: Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems/Area code 3c : Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

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