The Hierarchical Interface-Based Supervisory Control (HISC) framework was proposed to address challenges inherent in modeling the behavior of large, complex systems. Such systems are often characterized by decentralized or distributed architectures, where agents have only a partial view of the system behavior and cooperate to achieve the control objective, aspects unsupported by HISC. We introd...

by Babak Malek, M.S. Washington State University December 2009 Co-Chairs: Ali Saberi and Sandip Roy This dissertation is mainly about discrete-time decentralized control system design. Many largescale systems’ dynamics are characterized by their wide-spread topology and so these systems are considered to be decentralized. Subsequently, analysis of the decentralized systems is generally a really...