Supervisory control of finite state machines

Abstract

We address a problem of finding a finite state machine (FSM), which composed with a given FSM, satisfies a given specification. The composition we use is the standard synchronous automata composition restricted to cases which correctly model hardware interconnection. For the satisfaction relation, we use language containment. We present a procedure that will generate a solution (if one exists) which is maximal, i.e. contains behaviors of all other solutions.