Efficiently enforcing mutual state exclusion requirements in symbolic supervisor synthesis

Abstract

Given a model of an uncontrolled system and a requirement specification, a supervisory controller can be synthesized so that the system under control adheres to the requirements. There are several ways in which informal behavioral safety requirements can be formalized, one of which is using mutual state exclusion requirements. In current implementations of the supervisor synthesis algorithm, synthesis may be inefficient when mutual state exclusion requirements are used. We propose a method to efficiently enforce these requirements in supervisor synthesis. We consider symbolic supervisor synthesis, where Binary Decision Diagrams are used to represent the system. The efficiency of the proposed method is evaluated by means of an industrial and academic case study.