Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems: A Brief History – 1980-2015
Walter Murray Wonham, Kai Cai, Karen Rudie · IFAC-PapersOnLine · 2017
This brief history summarizes the ‘supervisory control of discrete-event systems’ as it has evolved in the period 1980-2015. Overall, the trend has been from centralized or ‘monolithic’ control to more structured architectures, and from ‘naive’ to symbolic computation. Like any ‘history’ this one represents the perspective of the authors; inevitably some important contributions will have been overlooked or short-changed.