Towards Optimal Supervisory Control of Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems

by Vera Pantelic, Mark Lawford

Abstract:

This paper considers optimal supervisory control of probabilistic discrete event systems (PDESs). PDESs are modeled as generators of probabilistic languages. The probabilistic supervisors employed enable/disable events with certain probabilities. We consider the case when there exists no probabilistic supervisor to match the behaviour of a plant to a probabilistic requirements specification. First, we define a notion of distance between two probabilistic generators. Then, given a plant and a desired probabilistic behaviour, we present an algorithm that minimizes the distance between the desired behaviour and the behaviour of the controlled plant achievable under probabilistic control.


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@inproceedings{PantelicLawford2009,
 author = {Vera Pantelic and Mark Lawford}
 title = {Towards Optimal Supervisory Control of
 Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems},
 booktitle = {DCDS 2009: 2nd IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems},
 year = {2009},
 location = {Bari, Italy}
 pages = {85-90}
 }
    

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