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A Discrete Event

Introduction

The purpose of this work is to establish a method for solving a class of inspection problems in an intelligent way. We use an agent to sense the environment and to feed the relevant data to a control module that makes design and sensing strategy choices which affect inspection activities. The autonomous sensing system can be modeled efficiently within a DEDS framework. DEDS are dynamic systems in which the use of discrete control events ensure stability and observability [2]. It is possible to control and observe hybrid systems (systems that involve continuous, discrete and symbolic parameters) under uncertainty using DEDS formulations [1,2,3]. The DEDS model is used as a structuring technique to utilize the known information about the way mechanical parts should be explored.