Input-Output Supervisor Design for Systems Analyzed in Cooperating Pairs of Subsystems
Fotis N. Koumboulis, Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis · 2024
The problem of supervisor design for systems analyzed in cooperating pairs of subsystems is studied. The supervisors realize the cooperation using only sensor and actuator data of each pair of subsystems. The analysis of the system in cooperating pairs of subsystems covers a wide range of applications. Each cooperating ordered pair forms a master/slave relation between the sensor signals of the second element of the pair and the actuator of the first element of the pair. All possible cooperation relations are determined and investigated with respect to the avoidance of blocking and stuck to the initial states of the actuators. The system properties of the cooperation are formulated in a set theoretic scheme that allows the determination of the set of admissible cooperation rules. The present theoretical results are illustrated through one manufacturing application and one infrastructure application.