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We study the problem of control synthesis for a timed plant and an external timed specification, modelled as timed automata. Our main result is that the problem is decidable when we are given a priori the resources for the controller (the number of clocks, observational power of clocks, etc.) and when the specification is an ω-regular timed language describing undesired behaviours. We also show that for deterministic specifications, if there is a controller at all, then there is one which uses the combined resources of the plant and specification. The decidability of other related problems is also investigated.
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D’souza, D., Madhusudan, P. (2002). Timed Control Synthesis for External Specifications. In: Alt, H., Ferreira, A. (eds) STACS 2002. STACS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45841-7_47
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