Control of large discrete event systems: constructive algorithms

An automata-based theory has been developed by W.M. Wonham and P.J. Ramadge (SMIA J. Control Optimiz. vol.25, p.206-30, 637-59, 1987) and their associates. Its practical implementation in large real-life systems requires automatic programming schemes, which yield supervisory control programs, and models of the controlled system´s behavior (for the purpose of performance analysis). The available data for these constructions would normally consist of a set of local structural models and local operational requirements. In the present study, the authors illuminate the relationship between local and global models and outline some of the basic elements of such schemes based on integration of local data