Section: Application Domains

Control-command Systems

The main application domain for controller synthesis is control-command systems. In general, such systems control costly machines (see e.g. robotic systems, flexible manufacturing systems), that are connected to an environment (e.g. a human operator). Such systems are often critical systems and errors occurring during their execution may have dramatic economical or human consequences. In this field, the controller synthesis methodology (CSM) is useful to ensure by construction the interaction between 1) the different components, and 2) the environment and the system itself. For the first point, the CSM is often used as a safe scheduler, whereas for the second one, the supervisor can be interpreted as a safe discrete tele-operation system.