演讲题目：Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems: A Brief History
时间：2017年9月7日上午10点至11点
地点：2教南二楼会议室
Title:Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems: A Brief History
Abstract: This talk presents a brief history on the “supervisory control theory (SCT) of discrete-event systems”, as it has evolved in the period 1980-2017. We trace back to the early 1980s to introduce the background, need, and motivation for SCT. The relation between SCT and linear control theory is highlighted, in particular their common root on control-theoretic concepts and synthesis. SCT was created by Ramadge and Wonham and pinned down to the literature in 1987; we introduce the essence of this framework which is based on regular languages and their finite automata representations. Moreover, we summarize various extensions of SCT in the past three decades, with emphasis on a variety of control architectures that exploit horizontal and vertical modularity, as well as partially-observed control systems. Extensions to state-based models, timed systems, and applications to a wide spectrum of engineering practice are also presented.
Biography: Kai Cai received the B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2006, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in systems science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011.He is currently an Associate Professor at Osaka City University. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2013–2014), and a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto(2011–2013).
Dr. Cai’s research interests include distributed control of multi-agent systems, distributed control of discrete-event systems, and control architecture of complex networked systems. He is the co-author (with W.M. Wonham) of Supervisor Localization (Springer 2016).He received the Best Paper Award of SICE in 2013 and in 2010, the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, and the Young Author’s Award of SICE.