Discrete Event Systems based Modeling for Agricultural Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Automata Theory Approach

A discrete event system (DES) is a dynamic system in which the state of a system is changed by the occurrence of an event. This study presents the formal modeling for agricultural multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system based on DES theory. To model the multi-UAV system, we model the states of UAVs using a finite state automaton. This approach using automata theory provides a systematic procedure for designing supervisory control theory, which is a control mechanism that can change the dynamic change of the system to a desired state based on discrete event modeling.