• DocumentCode
    2193866
  • Title

    Undecidable problems of decentralized observation and control

  • Author

    Tripakis, Stavros

  • Author_Institution
    VERIMAG, France
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    4104
  • Abstract
    We introduce a notion of decentralized observability for discrete-event systems, which we call joint observability. We prove that checking joint observability of a regular language w.r.t. one observer is decidable, whereas for two (or more) observers the problem becomes undecidable. Based on this result, we show that a related decentralized control problem is also undecidable. We finally provide an extensive study relating our work to existing work in the literature
  • Keywords
    decentralised control; decidability; discrete event systems; formal languages; observers; decentralized control; decentralized observability; decentralized observation; discrete-event systems; formal languages; joint observability; regular language; undecidable problems; Automata; Contracts; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Discrete event systems; Distributed control; Fault diagnosis; Observability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7061-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/.2001.980822
  • Filename
    980822