Reliable Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems with Single-Level Inference

Abstract

We consider a reliable decentralized supervisory control problem for discrete event systems in the inference-based framework. This problem requires us to synthesize local supervisors such that the controlled system achieves the specification and is nonblocking, even if local control decisions of some local supervisors are not available for making the global control decision. In the case of single-level inference, we introduce a notion of reliable 1-inference-observability and show that reliable 1-inference-observability together with controllability and L_m(G)-closedness is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a solution to the reliable decentralized supervisory control problem.