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📘 New Book 2024

A guided tour to supervisory control theory with scripting tool PyTCT.

📗 New Book 2023

A systematic collection of multi-agent cooperative control problems over directed networks, co-authored with Zhiyun Lin.

📕 Book 2019

A comprehensive introduction to supervisory control of discrete-event systems, co-authored with W.Murray Wonham.

📙 Book 2016

Introducing the supervisor localization approach for distributed control of multi-agent discrete-event systems, co-authored with W.Murray Wonham

Selected Latest Publications

  1. Z. Ma, J. Jiang, and K. Cai, "Secret protections with costs and disruptiveness in discrete-event systems using centralities", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4380--4395, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3323531
  2. F. Kudo and K. Cai, "Anytime multi-task multi-agent pickup and delivery under energy constraint", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 10145--10152, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3481030
  3. R. Zhang, Z. Wang, and K. Cai, "Quantitative nonblocking supervisory control of discrete-event systems", vol. 170, 111879, Automatica, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2024.111879
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