K-detectability in discrete event systems
Date
2016ISBN
978-1-5090-1837-6Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Source
2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 20162016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016
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420-425Google Scholar check
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This paper studies observability in discrete event systems (DES), and introduces and analyzes the property of K-detectability. In particular, a given DES is strongly K-detectable if eventually (after a finite number of observations) all corresponding sets of possible states (current state estimates following any given sequence of observations) are guaranteed to have cardinality less than or equal to K, where K is a positive integer. Note that for K = 1, strong K-detectability reduces to the standard notion of strong detectability. The paper briefly discusses ways to verify K-detectability using the standard observer construction (with exponential complexity) and also proposes a new construction (called the K-detector) that can be used to verify K-detectability with polynomial complexity. © 2016 IEEE.