Minimizing Deterministic Timed Finite State Machines

Abstract Timed automata and timed finite state machins (TFSMs) have been proposed to represent more accurately the behaviour of systems in continuous time. Recently, we introduced a model of TFSMs that extends the expressive power of FSMs by introducing a single clock, timed guards which restrict when the input/output transitions may happen, and timeouts on the transitions. We derived an abstraction procedure to convert a TFSM into an equivalent untimed FSM. Here, we extend the model with output timeouts and derive a minimal form for deterministic TFSMs that reduces the number of states, the number of transitions and the timeout values at each state.