Coordination of Resources using Generalized State-Based Requirements

Abstract Control and coordination is an important aspect of the development of complex machines due to an ever increasing demand for better functionality, quality, and performance. We develop a coordinator for maintenance procedures for a high-tech Oce printer that eliminates undesired behavior which stems from unrestricted interaction of its distributed components. To this end, we extend and employ a model-based engineering framework for supervisory controller synthesis. We generalize standard state-based control requirements to increase modeling convenience. We model the use case with 23 generalized state-based requirements, which translate to 500+ requirements in the original form.