In reinforcement learning (RL), rewards have been considered the most important feedback in understanding the environment. However, recently there have been interesting forays into other modes such as using sporadic supervisory inputs. This brings into the learning process richer information about the world of interest. In this paper, we model these supervisory inputs as specific types of instr...

Discrete-event models are generally used to describe systems where coordination and control is required to ensure the orderly flow of events, or to avoid the occurrence of certain chains of events. Reduced Supervision and Hierarchical Supervision are methods of obtaining a supervisor in which control is divided or we can say that the control is distributed. In this paper the Problem of Guide Wa...

The FeeCom chain consists of three layers: the FedClient as dedicated DIM module in the PVSS on the supervisory layer, the ICL located on the control layer and the FeeServers connected to the Front-End-Electronics (FEE) operating on the field devices. The ICL acts as distributor and collector for the system. It distributes commands issued from the supervisory layer to the FeeServers running on ...

Abstmct We focus on the training scheme for the neural networks t o learn in the regions of unstable equilibrium states and the identification and the control using these networks. These can be achieved by introducing a supervisory controller during the learning period of the neural networks. The supervisory controller is derigned based on Lyapunov theory and it guarantees the bonndednese of th...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) provide for the modeling of practical systems in the elds of communications, exible manufacturing, and air-traac management 1]. Herein, we treat the general MAS as an Interconnected Discrete Event System (IDES). By design or due to failure, the actual system is often subject to change and so is its IDES model. For example, at the highest level, an existing subsystem ma...

All signals were transmitted between the primary plant and the protection and control system by means of hard-wired secondary cabling. Protection and control panels located in control rooms were equipped with protection relays, panel mimics and control switches. The primary plant and protection and control panels were hard-wired to a supervisory remote terminal unit (RTU) via a supervisory junc...

We formalize the notion of optimal supervisory control of discrete event dynamical systems (DEDS's) in the framework of Ramadge and Wonham. A DEDS is modeled as a state machine, and is controlled by disabling some of its transitions. We de ne two types of cost functions: a cost of control function corresponding to disabling transitions in the state machine, and a penalty of control function cor...