Avoidance of temporary forbidden states using a traffic controller modeled with Controlled Petri nets

Abstract

This paper presents a traffic controller modeled with Controlled state machine Petri nets to avoid temporary forbidden states. From the introduction of the forbidden states avoidance problem, forbidden states have been treated as a finite set of places with a specific marking. We divide the set of forbidden states in two, and introduce a new class with a temporary existence to represent more faithfully the behavior of some systems; the set of temporary forbidden states changes with the time, increasing and decreasing at a maximum and minimum size. The main problem we tackle is how to construct the traffic controller to restrict the behavior of the plant and avoid any class of forbidden states. A secondary problem is to reduce the size of the vectors of admissible control by using a smaller number of control places. At the end we present the model of the traffic controller and the simulation results.