An Architecture-Level Specification for Automated Supervisory Controller Design

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Alvarez Cabrera, Andrés A.^{a; *} | Lopes, Gabriel A.D.^a | Tomiyama, Tetsuo^b

Affiliations: [a] Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands | [b] Manufacturing Department, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United kingdom

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Abstract: We propose a supervisory control design process that merges descriptions at the level of the system architecture with specific design methods related to supervisory control synthesis. The advantages of this proposal are a better integration of the supervisory control design with other design processes and stakeholders, improving the potential to automate part of the design process, and a complete specification in a modeling language that remains independent of the particular language of code implementation.

Keywords: System architecture model, control, design tools, mechatronic integration, software generation

DOI: 10.3233/jid-2015-0008

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 55-76, 2015