Disassembling and Reconstructing Algorithms for Discrete Event Systems

This paper addresses the problem of failure diagnosis in component-based discrete event systems. In this paper we propose a method to obtain the set of components when dealing with diagnosis in large complex discrete event systems. In the new method, before disassembling the system into components, we need to identify whether insert communication events into the system or not. When analyzing the diagnosability, we treat the system containing communication events as a distributed discrete event system. Otherwise we treat the system as a decentralized discrete event system. For the components which are not diagnosable, we propose a method to reconstruct them by utilizing some other components sharing the same communication events with them. This algorithm provides more accurate information of the diagnosability of the system.