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Supervisory Control under Partial Observation: Where Observation Consistency Becomes Decidable

Shaowen Miao·Jan Komenda·Tomáš Masopust·Yiding Ji
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Observation consistency (OC) and modified observation consistency (MOC) are structural conditions used in hierarchical and modular supervisory control under partial observation. Their verification for languages generated by deterministic finite automata is PSPACE-hard, whereas decidability was open. We answer this question by showing that both problems are undecidable, that is, there are no algorithms verifying OC or MOC. On the positive side, we identify a decidable class defined by a restriction on the plant: if every cycle of the automaton contains a transition labeled by an observable high-level event, then verification of both conditions is PSPACE-complete.

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Shaowen Miao, Jan Komenda, Tomáš Masopust, Yiding Ji. 2026-09-06. Supervisory Control under Partial Observation: Where Observation Consistency Becomes Decidable. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27899

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