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Supervisory and Distributed Control in Automation

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Supervisory control is a general concept that embraces many paradigms of human intervention in the operation of automation systems through human–machine interfaces appropriate for each paradigm. 335, 516, 519, 520, 525 The term supervisory control was borrowed from management science 335 where a human supervisor (director) is interacting with her/him subordinate employees giving commands to them for specific jobs that have to be done and receiving from them, at regular times, information about the status and the outcome of their work. Then, on the basis of this information the supervisor/director decides on particular changes and adjustments that have to be made in order to completely fulfill the goals of the enterprise. Exactly the same type of interaction is happening when a human supervisor interacts with machines that can be regarded as subordinates of her/him with specific physical and intelligence capabilities. To understand human supervisory control performance, one needs to formulate and investigate models that describe the behavior of the human supervisor. The human’s behavior depends, in general, on her/him internal representation about the system dynamics, the tasks, and the system’s environment (disturbances, uncertainties, etc.). Much work has been done in this area.444, 518, 525

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