Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Disc: Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants

Participant : Philippe Darondeau.

ICT STREP 224498 Disc (September 2008 to December 2011), http://www.disc-project.eu

Started on 1 September 2008, Disc is a project supported by the ICT program of the European Union.

The aim of the project is to enable the supervisory control of networked embedded systems. These distributed plants are composed by several local agents that take concurrently decisions, based on information that may be local or received from neighbouring agents; they require scalable and self-organising platforms for advanced computing and control. The evolution is guided by the occurrence of asynchronous events, as opposed to other real-time models where the event occurrence is time-triggered.

The partners of the project come from academia (University of Cagliari, CWI - Amsterdam, Ghent University, Technical University of Berlin, University of Zaragoza, INRIA, Czech Academy of Sciences), from industry (Akhela s.r.l., Italy and CyBio AG, Germany), and from a governmental instance (Ministry of the Flemish Government, Belgium).

Philippe Darondeau has worked in this context with Eric Badouel, Anne Bouillard and Jan Komenda (Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno) on the synthesis of robust delay-controllers for timed systems modelled with rational power series. He works also towards applying the synthesis of distributable Petri nets to asynchronous and distributed supervisory control.