A state-based framework for supervisory control synthesis and verification

We extend an existing model-based framework for supervisory control synthesis with generalized control and verification state-based requirements. The former stem from the need for intuitive specification of the control requirements, whereas the latter are employed for liveness verification in order to ensure that the supervisor does not disable desired functionalities of the plant. First, we introduce generalized control requirements and show them provably equivalent to the standard state-based control requirements. In the process, we identify a class of state-based liveness requirements, which can be efficiently verified and employed in the supervisor synthesis framework to provide early feedback to the modeler.