TCDES Tutorial

State Estimation and Event Inference in DES: Implications to Detectability, Diagnosability and Opacity

Christoforos Hadjicostis

Date & Time

Thu, January 21, 2021

Abstract

We discuss recursive algorithms for state estimation and event inference, both of which are key tasks for monitoring and control of discrete event systems. In particular, we discuss algorithms for current-, initial-, and delayed-state estimation. We also discuss implications to various pertinent properties of interest, such as detectability (i.e., the ability to determine the exact system state after a finite number of events), diagnosability (i.e., the ability to detect within finite time the occurrence/type of a fault), and opacity (i.e., the guarantee that outsiders will never be able to infer that the system state lies within a set of certain secret/critical states). The talk also briefly discusses the extension of state estimation and event inference methodologies in emerging decentralized/distributed observation settings.


Presenter

Christoforos Hadjicostis

University of Cyprus
Cyprus

Date & Time

Thu, January 21, 2021