%0 Conference Proceedings %F gaudin03b %A Gaudin, B. %A Marchand, H %T Modular Supervisory Control of Asynchronous and Hierarchical Finite State Machines %B European Control Conference, ECC 2003 %C Cambridge, UK %X In this paper, modular supervisory control of a class of Discrete Event Systems is investigated. Discrete event systems are modeled by a Hierarchical Finite State Machine. The basic problem of interest is to solve the State Avoidance Control Problem. We provide algorithms that, based on a particular decomposition of the set of forbidden configurations, locally solve the control problem (i.e. on each component without computing the whole system) and produce a global supervisor ensuring the desired property. This kind of objectives may be useful to perform dynamic interactions between different parts of a system %U http://www.irisa.fr/vertecs/Publis/Ps/2003-ECC.pdf %8 September %D 2003