TY - JOUR
T1 - The Control of Discrete Event Systems
AU - Ramadge, Peter Jeffrey
AU - Murray Wonham, W.
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theB.S., B.E.E. (Hons.),andM. eng. degrees from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976, 1978, and 1980, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1983. From June-December 1978 he was a vis-itor in the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, and from June 1983- August 1984, a postdoctoral fellow in the Systems Control Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He joined the faculty of Princeton University, Princeton, NI, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in September 1984. He has worked in the areas of adaptive control, stochastic control, and discrete-event systems. His current research interestsare in the theoretical aspectsof computer science and control theory with emphasis on applications of computers in control, learning, and signal processing. Dr. Ramage is a member of Sigma Xi and of SIAM. In 1980 he received the Outstanding Paper Award from the Control Systems Society of the IEEE for research in the area of adaptive control; in 1982 he received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto; and in 1985 he was a recipient of a National Science Foundation Research Initiation Grant. He was Co-chairman of the 22nd Con-
Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 7, 1988; revised September 13, 1988. This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation through Grant ECS-8504584, by an IBM Faculty Development Award, and by the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada through Grant A-7399.
PY - 1989/1
Y1 - 1989/1
N2 - A Discrete Event System (DBS) is a dynamic system that evolves in accordance with the abrupt occurrence, at possibly unknown irregular intervals, of physical events. Such systems arise in a variety of contexts ranging from computer operating systems to the control of complex multimode processes. We survey a control theory for the logical aspects of such DESs. This theory was initiated by Ramadge and Wonham, and has subsequently been extended by the authors and other researchers to encompass control theoretic ideas such as controllability, observability, aggregation, and modular, decentralized, and hierarchical control. We concentrate on the qualitative aspects of control but also consider computation and the related issue of computational complexity.
AB - A Discrete Event System (DBS) is a dynamic system that evolves in accordance with the abrupt occurrence, at possibly unknown irregular intervals, of physical events. Such systems arise in a variety of contexts ranging from computer operating systems to the control of complex multimode processes. We survey a control theory for the logical aspects of such DESs. This theory was initiated by Ramadge and Wonham, and has subsequently been extended by the authors and other researchers to encompass control theoretic ideas such as controllability, observability, aggregation, and modular, decentralized, and hierarchical control. We concentrate on the qualitative aspects of control but also consider computation and the related issue of computational complexity.
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U2 - 10.1109/5.21072
DO - 10.1109/5.21072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024479313
VL - 77
SP - 81
EP - 98
JO - Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
JF - Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
SN - 0018-9219
IS - 1
ER -