Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and practicing engineers who are interested in the control problems of manufacturing, communication and computer networks, chemical process plants, and other high-level control applications.

1. Introduction.- 2. Petri Nets.- 2.1 Petri Net Definitions.- 2.2 Structural Invariants.- 2.3 Siphons and Traps.- 2.4 Classes of Petri Nets.- 2.5 Petri Nets and Automata.- 2.6 Petri Nets in Control.- 3. Invariant Based Control Design.- 3.1 Monitor Based Supervisors.- 3.2 Supervisor Synthesis using Place Invariants.- 3.3 Maximally Permissive Supervision.- 4. Uncontrollable and Unobservable Transitions.- 4.1 Uncontrollable Transitions.- 4.2 Unobservable Transitions.- 4.3 Constraint Transformations.- 4.4 Vector Discrete Event Systems.- 4.5 Petri Net Modeled Supervisors.- 5. Constraint Transformation and Controller Synthesis.- 5.1 Computing Constraint Transformations.- 5.2 Structure of Admissible Constraints and Controls.- 5.3 Admissible Constraints and Controller Synthesis.- 5.4 Enforcing Disjunctions of Linear Constraints.- 6. Resource Management and Deadlock Avoidance.- 6.1 Modeling of Finite Resources.- 6.2 Conditions for Liveness.- 6.3 Deadlock Avoidance.- 7. Other Control Specifications.- 7.1 Equality Constraints.- 7.2 Constraints involving the Firing Vector.- 7.3 Logical Constraints on System Behavior.- 7.4 Constraints Involving Time.- 7.5 Limits of the Constraint Inequality.- 8. Example Applications.- 8.1 The Cat and Mouse Problem.- 8.2 Automated Guided Vehicle Coordination.- 8.3 The Unreliable Machine.- 8.4 Piston Rod Robotic Assembly Cell.- 8.5 Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switch.- 8.6 The Three Tanks Problem.- 8.7 Hybrid Control System Example.- 9. Summary and Conclusions.- References.- List of Symbols.- About the Authors.