Hybrid supervisory control in intelligent autonomous systems

It is shown that the quest for autonomy in engineering systems leads to intelligent control and to approaches that combine methodologies from the control, computing and communication networks areas and to hybrid system methodologies. The area of hybrid dynamical systems is of particular importance to intelligent control and several approaches to modeling and control of such systems axe briefly discussed, with emphasis on supervisory control approaches that are based on discrete abstractions. Copyright (C) 2001 IFAC.