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RE39534 |
Method and apparatus to calibrate a semi-empirical process simulator
A method and apparatus for calibrating a semi-empirical process simulator used to determine process values in a plasma process for creating a desired surface profile on a process substrate includes...
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7197418 |
Online specification of a system which compares determined devices and installed devices
A system and method for online configuration of a measurement device for a measurement system. The user accesses a server with a client computer over a network and specifies a desired measurement...
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7194318 |
Integrated optimization and control using modular model predictive controller
A modular formulation of model predictive controller is proposed by this invention ( 400 ). The modular formulation offers a robust model predictive controller with unified method of tuning....
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7194317 |
Fast plant test for model-based control
A method and apparatus for designing perturbation signals to excite a number of input variables of a system, in order to test that system for the purpose of obtaining models for the synthesis of a...
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7190140 |
Sliding mode controller position control device
A position control device for causing a position of a control system, including a servomotor and a moving body driven by the servomotor, to track a command value. The position control device...
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7189318 |
Tuning electrodes used in a reactor for electrochemically processing a microelectronic workpiece
A facility for selecting and refining electrical parameters for processing a microelectronic workpiece in a processing chamber is described. The facility initially configures the electrical...
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7191087 |
Sensor controller
A sensor controller is disclosed which transmits large-capacity data such as waveform data and image data within a short time (in rapid cycles, for example) and makes possible various collaborative...
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7184847 |
Method and system for controlling a process in a plant
A method and system are disclosed for controlling a process by establishing a control factor for a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller used to control a parameter of a process...
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7181736 |
Method and system for controlling the improving of a program layout
A method and system for improving the working set of a program image. The working set (WS) improvement system of the present invention employs a two-phase technique for improving the working set....
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7181294 |
Vibration control device
A control device for controlling the motion of a movable part in a machine while suppressing vibration generated in the movable part. The control device includes a state-variable estimating section...
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7171278 |
Optimized planer feeder system and method
An apparatus for optimizing orientation of a workpiece in a planermill for feeding of the workpiece into a planer includes an infeed to the planer, a workpiece turner for selectively turning the...
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7158841 |
Active DC output control and method for controlling targeted applications
A feedback control-loop system that employs an active DC output control circuit is disclosed which compares an input parameter measurement against a target specification associated with the input...
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7158840 |
Tuning control parameters of vibration reduction and motion control systems for fabrication equipment and robotic systems
A method and apparatus is disclosed for acquiring and processing parameters used to adjust and tune a controller used, for example, to govern and compensate for motion, including vibrations and...
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7155303 |
Numeric control method and numeric control system
A numerical control system comprises a high speed operation buffer 27 for storing all the NC control data (interpolation movement amount or acceleration or deceleration data, etc.) occurring in...
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7149589 |
Method of adjusting a process control device, adjustment tool therefor and process control device thereof
In a method of adjusting a process control device wherein a closed loop system comprising a control subject and external compensator is approximated by a transfer function expressed by the time...
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7149597 |
Process control system and method
A process control method for producing acceptable product within a range of acceptable specifications and unacceptable product that are not within the range of acceptable specifications to optimize...
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7149590 |
Kiln control and upset recovery using a model predictive control in series with forward chaining
A method for controlling a non-linear process includes the steps of first providing a controller that is operable to receive inputs representing measured variables of the process and predicting on...
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7138989 |
Display capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats
A display is capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats. The display includes a controller that is coupled to a plurality of image data interfaces. When...
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7133737 |
Program for controlling laser apparatus and recording medium for recording program for controlling laser apparatus and capable of being read out by computer
The object of the present invention is to solve problems treatment time when using an SLS method or continuous-oscillation laser. An indispensable portion is scanned with a laser beam in order to...
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7133763 |
Control apparatus for controlling a plant by using a delta-sigma modulation algorithm
The invention provides a control apparatus comprising a controller for determining a manipulated variable for manipulating a controlled object so that an output of the controlled object converges...
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7130851 |
System and method for maintaining and displaying user ordered lists
A system and method for updating a source copy of an ordered list (the source list) comprising a plurality of list items according to modifications made to the order of the list items in a local...
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7127358 |
Method and system for run-to-run control
A method and system of controlling a process from run-to-run for semiconductor manufacturing. The method of control utilizes a process model to establish a relationship between process control...
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7127371 |
Customized medical equipment preventative maintenance method and system
A technique is provided for determining service intervals for devices, such as medical equipment. Data related to a device is collected and compared to data from a population of like devices. A...
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7123978 |
Method for dynamically targeting a batch process
A method for controlling at least one characteristic of a product of an industrial batch process. The method comprising the steps of creating a hierarchical knowledge tree describing the process....
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7124065 |
Determining a tangent space and filtering data onto a manifold
A technique for determining the number of constraints on a set of input data, or equivalently the topological dimension, especially when such data are produced by a nonlinear system, such as a...
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7123973 |
Partitioned control system and method
A method for controlling a controlled process in response to an input signal and a disturbance signal includes modeling the controlled process in a process model; controlling the process model by a...
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7123971 |
Non-linear model with disturbance rejection
Non-linear model with disturbance rejection. A method for training a non linear model for predicting an output parameter of a system is disclosed that operates in an environment having associated...
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7117052 |
Version control for objects in a process plant configuration system
A version control system helps to keep track of versions of process plant items that may represent, or be capable of representing, entities in a process plant. The process plant items may comprise,...
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7107107 |
Predictive action decision device and action decision method
In a predictive action determination apparatus ( 10 ), a state observation section ( 12 ) observes a state with respect to an environment ( 11 ) and obtains state data s(t). An environment...
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7099720 |
Method for identifying a control path of a controlled system
A method for identifying a control path of a controlled system, and more particularly to a method for identifying a control path in the presence of deterministic perturbations is described. At...
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7096073 |
Configurable controller
A configurable controller, comprising a configurable digital unit having a synchronization control module; a plurality of signal acquisition modules connected with said synchronization control...
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7096085 |
Process control by distinguishing a white noise component of a process variance
A method, system and medium is provided for enabling improved control systems. An error, or deviation from a target result, is observed for example during manufacture of semiconductor chips. The...
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7096074 |
Methods and apparatus for early fault detection and alert generation in a process
A method and apparatus for providing early fault detection and alert generation in a multi-parameter process is provided. The method comprises defining a multi-dimensional space, each dimension...
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7092856 |
H-infinity controller design using control object models
A design device which designs a controller in accordance with H infinity (H ∞) logic, in which formulae of generalized plants and formulae of control object models which are parts of the...
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7092863 |
Model predictive control (MPC) system using DOE based model
A system for automatic control of a process, comprising a process model using data and further comprising a data model for generating data for said process model and an empirical data extractor for...
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7085611 |
Control method of PI controller
A control method of a PI controller which selectively performs a proportional control and a proportional/integral control, the method includes Fourier transforming an output of the PI controller,...
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7082343 |
Manufacturing optimization and synchronization process
A manufacturing optimization and synchronization process is provided in which data records for incomplete orders in the manufacturing and shipping facility are collected and sorted on a priority...
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7079904 |
Adaptive software management
Adaptive control techniques, such as power management techniques for use in managing power consumption in an electronic device, employ optimization analysis to generate power consumption/quality of...
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7076313 |
Method for optimizing configuration of pick-and-place machine
A method for optimizing the configuration of a pick-and-place machine utilizes a genetic algorithm that creates an initial population of possible configurations and selects an optimum configuration...
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7072723 |
Method and system for optimization of general problems
Embodiments of the disclosed inventinn include optimization methods and systems that receive a mathematical description of a system, in symbolic form, that includes decision variables of various...
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7069198 |
Method for formulating paint
A method for formulating paint is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of color coordinates of paints formed from a plurality of formulations and providing durability data related...
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7065414 |
Methods and apparatus for operating production facilities
A method and apparatus for operating a production system that includes a plurality of production facilities is provided. The method includes receiving, in real-time, for each facility, cost data...
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7062333 |
Optimal solution search device, device for controlling controlled object by optimizing algorithm, and optimal solution search program
To provide an algorithm-based optimizing controller which can search for an optimal solution in line with user requirements with reduced time requirements for optimization. An interactive...
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7062447 |
Imputed variable generator
Disclosed are methods, media and systems for generating imputing econometric variables from raw econometric data. A method for generating cleansed initial dataset from corrected raw econometric...
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7062334 |
Positioning control method, positioning control device, and electronic component mounting apparatus using same
There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and...
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7058483 |
Method and apparatus for maximizing power usage in a power plant
A method for controlling a plant to achieve desired operating results. Select operating parameters of the plant are measured and input to a plurality of transforms that define select actions to be...
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7054694 |
Process control system
The present invention has the following characteristics. The process input signal input value and engineering unit value scale data are associated and stored inside the control unit. The operation...
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7050873 |
System and method for dynamic multi-objective optimization of machine selection, integration and utilization
The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance...
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7050880 |
Chemical-mechanical planarization controller
The invention provides a model-based control approach to chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) control. The preferred embodiment comprises mathematical models of the CMP process. These models...
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7050953 |
Dynamical methods for solving large-scale discrete and continuous optimization problems
Dynamical methods for obtaining the global optimal solution of general optimization problems having closed form or black box objective functions, including the steps of first finding, in a...
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