Ware, SimonMalik, Robi2015-03-2320142015-03-232014Ware, S., & Malik, R. (2014). Supervisory control with progressive events. In Proc 2014 11th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (pp. 1466–1471). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE.978-1-4799-2836-1https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9256This paper investigates some limitations of the nonblocking property when used for supervisor synthesis in discrete event systems. It is shown that there are cases where synthesis with the nonblocking property gives undesired results. To address such cases, the paper introduces progressive events as a means to specify more precisely how a synthesised supervisor should complete its tasks. The nonblocking property is modified to take progressive events into account, and appropriate methods for verification and synthesis are proposed.application/pdfenThis is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the Proceedings of 2014 11th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation. © 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Conference Contribution10.1109/ICCA.2014.6871138