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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1999. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5250-5
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1999.831250
