On the supervisory control of multiagent product systems

Author

Romanovski, I. ; Caines, P.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

51

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

794

Lastpage

799

Abstract

In this note, we use the formal framework of multiagent (MA) product systems (introduced and developed in previous works) for the analysis of complex systems. The results of this note constitute a natural extension of the classical supervisory control results for scalar systems to the more general MA product system case. The notion of MA controllability is introduced and is shown to essentially constitute a necessary and sufficient condition for the synthesis of an MA supervisor.

Keywords

control system analysis; control system synthesis; controllability; discrete event systems; large-scale systems; multi-agent systems; complex systems; controllability; multiagent product systems; scalar systems; supervisory control; Automata; Control system analysis; Control system synthesis; Controllability; Discrete event systems; Manufacturing; Network synthesis; Power system modeling; Sufficient conditions; Supervisory control; Decentralized systems; discrete event systems; multiagent (MA) product distributed systems; supervisory control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAC.2006.875027

Filename

1632307