Computation of fault-tolerant supervisors for discrete event systems ?

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2013-10-21

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Sülek, Ayşe Nur
Schmidt, Klaus Verner

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Fault-tolerance addresses the problem of operating a system even in case of faults. In this paper, we study fault-tolerance in the supervisory control framework for discrete event systems (DES). We consider DES, where certain events might no longer be possible in case a fault happens. In this setting, we first identify necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a supervisor that realizes a given behavioral specification both in the non-faulty and in the faulty case. We further show that it is possible to determine a supremal fault-tolerant sublanguage in case the existence condition is violated. Finally, we propose an algorithm for the computation of this sublanguage and prove its correctness. Different from existing work, our fault-tolerant supervisor allows fault occurrences and system repairs at any time. The concepts and results developed in this paper are illustrated by a manufacturing system example.

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Discrete event systems, Supervisory control, Fault-tolerance

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41577

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https://doi.org/10.3182/20130904-3-uk-4041.00023

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A. N. Sülek and K. V. Schmidt, “Computation of fault-tolerant supervisors for discrete event systems ?,” 2013, vol. 4, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41577.