• DocumentCode
    1812156
  • Title

    Initial investigations of hierarchical supervisory control for multi-agent systems

  • Author

    Hubbard, Paul ; Caines, Peter E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    2218
  • Abstract
    A notion of systems of interacting finite deterministic automata is formulated via a newly proposed multi-agent (MA) product. The synchronous and simultaneous aspects of the MA product are examined in terms of language acceptance, and a new notion of non-simultaneous controllability is defined. A line of research for the hierarchical supervision of MA product systems is then proposed
  • Keywords
    controllability; deterministic automata; discrete event systems; finite automata; formal languages; hierarchical systems; multi-agent systems; hierarchical supervisory control; interacting finite deterministic automata; multi-agent product; multi-agent systems; Automata; Control system analysis; Control systems; Controllability; Cost function; Manufacturing; Multiagent systems; Supervisory control; Telecommunication control; Transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 1999. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • ISSN
    0191-2216
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5250-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1999.831250
  • Filename
    831250