Illustrated with real-life manufacturing examples, Formal Methods in Manufacturing provides state-of-the-art solutions to common problems in manufacturing systems. Assuming some knowledge of discrete event systems theory, the book first delivers a detailed introduction to the most important formalisms used for the modeling, analysis, and control of manufacturing systems (including Petri nets, automata, and max-plus algebra), explaining the advantages of each formal method. It then employs the different formalisms to solve specific problems taken from today's industrial world, such as modeling and simulation, supervisory control (including deadlock prevention) in a distributed and/or decentralized environment, performance evaluation (including scheduling and optimization), fault diagnosis and diagnosability analysis, and reconfiguration. Containing chapters written by leading experts in their respective fields, Formal Methods in Manufacturing helps researchers and application engineers handle fundamental principles and deal with typical quality goals in the design and operation of manufacturing systems.

Illustrated with real-life manufacturing examples, Formal Methods in Manufacturing provides state-of-the-art solutions to common problems in manufacturing systems. Assuming some knowledge of discrete event systems theory, the book first delivers a detailed introduction to the most important formalisms used for the modeling, analysis, and control of manufacturing systems (including Petri nets, automata, and max-plus algebra), explaining the advantages of each formal method. It then employs the different formalisms to solve specific problems taken from today's industrial world, such as modeling and simulation, supervisory control (including deadlock prevention) in a distributed and/or decentralized environment, performance evaluation (including scheduling and optimization), fault diagnosis and diagnosability analysis, and reconfiguration. Containing chapters written by leading experts in their respective fields, Formal Methods in Manufacturing helps researchers and application engineers handle fundamental principles and deal with typical quality goals in the design and operation of manufacturing systems.

Control of Discrete-event Systems provides a survey of the most important topics in the discrete-event systems theory with particular focus on finite-state automata, Petri nets and max-plus algebra. Coverage ranges from introductory material on the basic notions and definitions of discrete-event systems to more recent results. Special attention is given to results on supervisory control, state estimation and fault diagnosis of both centralized and distributed/decentralized systems developed in the framework of the Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants (DISC) project. Later parts of the text are devoted to the study of congested systems though fluidization, an over approximation allowing a much more efficient study of observation and control problems of timed Petri nets. Finally, the max-plus algebraic approach to the analysis and control of choice-free systems is also considered. Control of Discrete-event Systems provides an introduction to discrete-event systems for readers that are not familiar with this class of systems, but also provides an introduction to research problems and open issues of current interest to readers already familiar with them. Most of the material in this book has been presented during a Ph.D. school held in Cagliari, Italy, in June 2011.

This volume contains the proceedings of ADHS 06: the 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, organized in Alghero (Italy) on June 7-9, 2006.
ADHS is a series of triennial meetings that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with a background in control and computer science to provide a survey of the advances in the field of hybrid systems, and of their ability to take up the challenge of analysis, design and verification of efficient and reliable control systems. ADHS'06 is the second Conference of this series after ADHS'03 in Saint Malo.
* 65 papers selected through careful reviewing process
* Plenary lectures presented by three distinguished speakers
* Featuring interesting new research topics

Questo testo si propone di fornire al lettore una panoramica dettagliata delle principali metodologie modellistiche usate per la rappresentazione e la (TM)analisi dei sistemi dinamici lineari e a tempo continuo (con alcuni cenni ai sistemi non lineari). Il testo A] stato pensato per il Nuovo Ordinamento didattico che prevede una Laurea triennale e una Laurea Specialistica biennale. La (TM)obiettivo A] quello di coprire i contenuti di: un insegnamento introduttivo alla (TM)Automatica per la Laurea, pensando ad un corso di studi che preveda un primo corso di Analisi dei Sistemi ed un secondo corso di Controlli Automatici; un insegnamento avanzato di Analisi dei Sistemi per la Laurea Specialistica. Il testo A] strutturato in maniera tale che gli studenti della Laurea possano seguire un percorso in cui nei primi capitoli le sezioni dedicate ad argomenti complementari (rivolte agli studenti della Laurea Specialistica) possano essere omesse senza pregiudicare la comprensione. Gli argomenti rivolti agli studenti della Laurea Specialistica sono trattati in svariate sezioni di complemento dei primi capitoli e negli ultimi due capitoli. Le caratteristiche salienti di questo testo, che lo distinguono da altri presenti nel panorama italiano, sono le seguenti: si tratta di un volume di circa 400 pagine principalmente dedicato alla (TM)analisi dei sistemi lineari e stazionari a ciclo aperto (e non dei sistemi in controreazione o in genere dei sistemi di controllo) e a tempo continuo (e non dei sistemi a tempo discreto). Due capitoli, tuttavia, approfondiscono lo studio dei sistemi in retroazione e dei sistemi non lineari. Vengono studiati in dettaglio sia i modelli ingresso-uscita sia i modelli in termini di variabili di stato. Vengono illustrate in dettaglio sia le tecniche di analisi nel dominio del tempo che le tecniche di analisi nel dominio della variabile di Laplace e della frequenza.