On Hybrid Control of Complex Systems: A Survey

P.J. Antsaklis, X.D. Koutsoukos and Janan Zaytoon

European Journal of Automation, 32(9-10), 1023-1045, Dec. 1998. A shorter version of the same paper by P.J. Antsaklis and X.D. Koutsoukos, appeared in Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Automation of Mixed Processes: Dynamic Hybrid Systems (ADPM'98), pp. 1-8, Reims, France, March 19-20 1998.

Abstract -- In this paper a brief overview of hybrid control systems is given and an introduction to several approaches in hybrid systems research with an extended list of references is presented. Emphasis is put on Petri net approaches to hybrid control.

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