15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
SPECIFICATION AND SUPERVISORY CONTROL FOR MULTI-AGENT PRODUCT SYSTEMS
I. Romanovski and P.E. Caines
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill
University
3480 University st., Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
{peterc,yasha}@cim.mcgill.ca

The prescription of sets of trajectories for controlled finite deterministic automaton G is formulated via the notion of the class of specifications denoted, both individually and collectively, by SPEC. Next, the formulation and (language) specification of structures for interacting automata are developed within the Multi-Agent (MA) product framework, and specifications are defined in terms of SPECs. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the synthesis of MA supervisors are given and an associated MA product of specificatins is introduced.
Keywords: trajectory specification, supervisory control, automata, multi-agent systems, vector words, vector processes
Session slot T-We-M21: Posters of Modelling, Identification and Discrete Systems/Area code 3c : Discrete Event Dynamic Systems