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Deadlock-Free Symbolic Smith Controllers Based on Prediction for Nondeterministic Systems

Masashi MIZOGUCHI, Toshimitsu USHIO

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The Smith method has been used to control physical plants with dead time components, where plant states after the dead time is elapsed are predicted and a control input is determined based on the predicted states. We extend the method to the symbolic control and design a symbolic Smith controller to deal with a nondeterministic embedded system. Due to the nondeterministic transitions, the proposed controller computes all reachable plant states after the dead time is elapsed and determines a control input that is suitable for all of them in terms of a given control specification. The essence of the Smith method is that the effects of the dead time are suppressed by the prediction, however, which is not always guaranteed for nondeterministic systems because there may exist no control input that is suitable for all predicted states. Thus, in this paper, we discuss the existence of a deadlock-free symbolic Smith controller. If it exists, it is guaranteed that the effects of the dead time can be suppressed and that the controller can always issue the control input for any reachable state of the plant. If it does not exist, it is proved that the deviation from the control specification is essentially inevitable.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E104-A No.11 pp.1593-1602
Publication Date
2021/11/01
Publicized
2021/05/14
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.2021EAP1002
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Systems and Control

Authors

Masashi MIZOGUCHI
  Osaka University
Toshimitsu USHIO
  Osaka University

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