Formal Approach to Control Design of Complex and Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we tackle the design of complex discrete event systems whose structures change as they are developed in different operating modes. Based on the Supervisory Control Theory (SCT), we propose a formal hierarchical approach for controlling the design of these systems by using a multi-model approach; it involves representing complex systems by a set of simple models, each of which describing the system in a given operating mode. The resulting framework allows resolving problems of reconfigurations and managing of common components to multiple operating modes; and it is designed by using the Colored Petri Nets (CP-Nets) formalism.