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The problem of synthesizing decentralized control and synchronous communication policies has been examined from a variety of perspectives, including both top-down and bottom-up approaches. We examine various aspects of the problem by addressing some basic questions such as “why communicate?”, “who communicates?”, “what should be communicated?”, and “when/where should communication occur?”. A brief survey of the literature is presented followed by an in-depth example of three bottom-up techniques for designing communication protocols that, when applied to the system, ensure that the decentralized control objective is met.
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Ricker, L. (2013). An Overview of Synchronous Communication for Control of Decentralized Discrete-Event Systems. In: Seatzu, C., Silva, M., van Schuppen, J. (eds) Control of Discrete-Event Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 433. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4276-8_7
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