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This brief history summarizes the ‘supervisory control of discrete-event systems’ as it has evolved in the period 1980-2015. Overall, the trend has been from centralized or ‘monolithic’ control to more structured architectures, and from ‘naive’ to symbolic computation. Like any ‘history’ this one represents the perspective of the authors; inevitably some important contributions will have been overlooked or short-changed.
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Wonham et al. (2017) studied this question.
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