Efficient robust supervisors for discrete event systems

This paper is a sequel to a previous publication by the same authors, in which an efficient modular solution to a robust supervisory control problem for discrete event systems modeled by finite automata with prefix-closed specification languages has been presented. This solution is based on a general recursive robust control scheme, which has been successfully applied to a number of problems. The additional contributions of the present paper are: (a) a slight generalization of the problem assumptions; (b) an alternative derivation of some of the results and an alternative formulation of the controller; (c) a detailed description of a very efficient on-line implementation algorithm; and (d) an illustrative practical example.