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5959861 Adaptive robust control device  
A system control device, specifically a control device for allowing a robot manipulator to track an object trajectory, can allow a system to track the object trajectory under undesirable conditions...
5949677 Control system utilizing fault detection  
A control architecture having improved fault detection and correction capabilities is disclosed. The system comprises primary and monitor control systems, each having an associated control signal....
5943231 Computer controlled separator device  
computer controlled separator device is disclosed. The computer control system monitors the operation of the separator device and makes any adjustments necessary to maintain optimal operation. An...
5940291 Low-complexity adaptive controller  
In accordance with one embodiment of the present intention, an adaptive feedback controller is configured to substantially reduce an error control signal defined by the difference between a command...
5928310 Digital device control method and system via linear function generator implementation using adder for intercept  
A system and method in a digital network for developing a digital output control signal Y which is of greater range and sensitivity than an input digital difference signal X wherein Y has a linear...
5912821 Vibration/noise control system including adaptive digital filters for simulating dynamic characteristics of a vibration/noise source having a rotating member  
A control system for controlling vibrations and noises generated by a vibration/noise source having at least a rotating member includes a first filter which generates a control signal for...
5909370 Method of predicting overshoot in a control system response  
A process control system including a method of suppressing overshoot of a process variable beyond the process value setpoint by predicting the overshoot by observing a waveform associated with the...
5886895 Plant utility optimizing method and an optimizing system  
For calculating optimum operation parameters of a BTG plant including a plurality of boilers having a linear input/output characteristic between an incoming fuel and steam output and a plurality of...
5883802 Energy usage controller for an appliance  
A controller controls the energy of an appliance during a current selected cycle in order to ensure that the energy usage is maintained below a predetermined average limit. The controller maintains...
5883344 Automatic calibration of field-oriented elevator motor drive parameters using standstill motor measurements  
An elevator controller 7 is provided with logic 48 which automatically calculates a motor time constant (τ R ), a torque constant (K T *), and a magnetizing current (Id) for a field-oriented...
5880952 Sliding mode control method  
According to a sliding mode control method, a hyperplane for a sliding mode control process is established with a linear function having as variables a plurality of state quantities of an object to...
5877954 Hybrid linear-neural network process control  
A hybrid analyzer having a data derived primary analyzer and an error correction analyzer connected in parallel is disclosed. The primary analyzer, preferably a data derived linear model such as a...
5825645 Two-level system identifier apparatus with optimization  
An apparatus for identifying the structure and estimating the parameters in the structure of a controlled system is described. The apparatus uses a structure identifier, in a preferred embodiment,...
5812427 Physical quantity detecting apparatus  
A physical amount detecting apparatus, preferably, an acceleration sensor, includes a sensor element, an A/D converter, a control unit and an activation unit. The sensor element is activated by a...
5805447 Cascade tuning controller and method of use therefor  
A cascade tuning controller and a method for use therefor is provided. The control inputs and the control coefficients are multiplied by scaling values. The scaling values are first tuned and the...
5805446 Method for facility location  
An information processing apparatus and a method being performed in the information processing apparatus which includes an input device, an output device, a memory having stored therein geographic...
5798918 Performance-temperature optimization by modulating the switching factor of a circuit  
A system and method for modulating the switching factor of a circuit to control heating and which does not require modulation of the circuit's clock frequency. The switching factor refers to the...
5796625 Physical design automation system and process for designing integrated circuit chip using simulated annealing with "chessboard and jiggle" optimization  
A cell placement for an integrated circuit chip is divided into two "chessboard" patterns or "jiggles". Each pattern resembles a chessboard in that it consists of alternating regions of different...
5781431 Process and apparatus for high speed on the fly supply of information necessary for routing data structures  
The invention relates to a process for the analysis of all or part of the informations contained in data structures or formats in order to supply to an external system the informations necessary...
5781430 Optimization method and system having multiple inputs and multiple output-responses  
A method and system for optimizing a steady-state performance of a process having multiple inputs and multiple output-responses is provided. The method and system provide a unified and systematic...
5781340 Gauss lens with image stabilizing function  
A Gauss lens having image stabilizing function with sufficient brightness, back focal length and excellent imaging quality is provided. The present invention includes, in order from object side, at...
5774356 Image forming apparatus with job priority management of output processing  
Image data is input through an image data input means, and stored into an image data storage means on a job basis. The volumes of the respective stored jobs are recognized by a job volume...
5768123 System and method for capacity management in multi-service networks  
A methodology for allocation of transmission capacity in communications networks is provided wherein a collection of constant rate channels is implemented between end points in the network. In that...
5768121 Adaptive flow controller for use with a flow control system  
The present invention relates to an adaptive airflow control system for positioning damper systems or controlling air units utilized in an environment control system. The system is based on a...
5764508 Document processing and data distribution system for an air traffic control environment  
An information processing system for an air traffic control environment using portable media to represent information about air flights, which portable media represent information by printing, hand...
5764507 Programmable controller with personal computerized ladder diagram  
A programmable logic controller with personal computerized ladder diagram having a keyboard, a monitor, a magnetic disk unit, a printer, the output and input terminals, an interface card of...
5761387 System controller  
A system controller which significantly reduces the number of development processes and automatically exercises control corresponding to situations. The system controller is made up of a...
5758047 Method of process controller optimization in a multivariable predictive controller  
In a process control system, having a controller for providing robust control of a process, the controller utilizes a predetermined range control procedure the results being a control solution. The...
5754446 Method and apparatus for optimizing performance of a kaplan turbine  
A method and system for optimizing performance of a Kaplan turbine power generating unit are provided wherein an optimal "N-dimensional" virtual cam is populated with gate and blade positional...
5754423 Method and apparatus for preparing a mixture of materials  
The invention relates to the preparation of a material mixture consisting of a plurality of mineral raw material components which are delivered individually proportioned, are ground and...
5740028 Information input/output control device and method therefor  
There is disclosed an information input/output control device and a method for controlling the same which supervises a working condition of an information terminal device connected to the...
5737214 Method for controlling a function unit with a steering and control device  
A method is provided for steering and controlling a functional unit with a steering and control device. The steering and control device includes a plurality of normalizing units, each unit having...
5737213 Controlling system for determining a system deviation  
A controlling system includes a comparator unit, which determines a system deviation from a reference variable and a controlled variable, and comprising a correcting device, which is arranged...
5727126 Self-programming circuit  
Circuit (SPSA) has a processing unit (VE) with an electrically erasable and electrically programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a classification unit (KE) and an interface unit (EIF) for the...
5719788 Automatic detection of excessively oscillatory feedback control loops.  
Automatic detection of excessive oscillations in feedback control loops of a completely general nature can be achieved by generating an autocorrelation function of the controlled variable or...
5708341 Control apparatus and method with correction of trial manipulated pattern  
A PID controller roughly controls several times of trial operations preceding an actual operation. A trial operation analyzing unit analyzes and learns the trial operations conducted under the...
5706192 Antiphase switching in arrays of globally coupled oscillators  
A method and apparatus for accessing anti-phase states in a nonlinear system by globally coupling an array of oscillators. For N number of oscillators in the system, there are (N-1)| anti-phase...
5696672 Preview control apparatus  
A preview control apparatus uses a previously known future target value to control, among other things, robots and industrial machinery. Fast, highly accurate control is achieved in accordance with...
5691894 Cylinder positioning control apparatus  
A cylinder positioning control apparatus designed to effect positioning of a cylinder by learning control that uses not only an overrun distance but also a cylinder speed as input data for control....
5691893 Adaptive control system  
An adaptive control system for reducing undesired signals comprises a processor (36) which provides secondary signals for sources (37) for interference with the undesired signals. Sensors (42)...
5687075 Adaptive control system  
An adaptive control system for reducing undesired signals comprises sensors (31) to provide signals indicative of the undesired signals, and a processor (36) which processes the first signal to...
5663879 Method and apparatus for smooth control of a vehicle with automatic recovery for interference  
In order to provide smooth control a vehicle control method includes concatenating like-kind direction arrows in a configuration space. In addition, a stopping criterion is used to change a control...
5654619 Method of feedforward control for servomotor  
A control method of a servomotor, such that a moving command for position-velocity processing, which is executed in every sampling period obtained by dividing a distribution period of moving...
5650926 Trace-and-track method  
After an initializing step S302, a new minimum functional value F(*X 2 ) is obtained from a present minimum functional value F(*X 1 ) by a exploration in a step S303. F(*X 1 ) and F(*X 2 ) are...
5646869 Numerical simulation system for a physical system suffering random disturbance  
A simulator includes an initialization unit, an increment generating unit, an approximate value updating unit, and an output unit. The initialization unit enters into the increment generating unit...
5638267 Method and apparatus for minimizing unwanted dynamics in a physical system  
Method and apparatus for minimizing unwanted dynamics in a physical system response. Constraints on the input and on the unwanted dynamics are established, and an impulse sequence which satisfies...
5637970 Motor speed control apparatus and motor speed control method  
A method and apparatus for controlling the speed of a motor for a hard disk drive. The motor speed control apparatus includes a speed feedback controller which uses selected feedback coefficients....
5633795 Adaptive tonal control system with constrained output and adaptation  
An adaptive control system and method for actively canceling tones in an active acoustic attenuation system has an adaptive parameter bank. Adaptation of the adaptive parameter bank can be...
5627750 Clutch slip control device and method of manufacturing the same, clutch slip control method, and vehicle control device  
A clutch slip control device includes: a slip revolution speed detecting circuit for detecting an actual slip revolution speed of a clutch; a memory unit for storing constants set to satisfy...
5621665 Selecting levels for factors for industrial process experiments  
A method is provided for defining a minimally sized set of industrial process experiments which are sufficient to identify optimal levels for factors which go into the process. The method defines...
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