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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLINE CODE VALIDATION A method of offline code validation and a process control system are provided. The system includes a plurality of sensors each configured to generate a sensor output value representative of a respective sensed parameter in a process plant, at least one process controlle... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071991 | Method of Connecting Different Layers of Optimization The present invention is a method for synchronizing multiple layers of constrained optimization with both layers having some common variables in a to processing plant. The layers of optimization can include Planning, Scheduling, Real-Time Optimization and Model Predicti... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053704 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CLOSED-LOOP IDENTIFICATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM An apparatus, method, and computer program are provided for automated closed-loop identification of an industrial process in a process control system. Multiple models (such as multiple model structure-model order combinations) can be identified, where the models are ass... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120041569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TRANSIENT COOLING PERFORMANCE FOR A DATA CENTER A system and method is provided for evaluating the transient cooling performance of a data center. In one version, the method includes receiving input data from a storage device, the input data including data center architecture information and operating data, displayin... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035747 | SCALING AND PARAMETERIZING A CONTROLLER Controller scaling and parameterization are described. Techniques that can be improved by employing the scaling and parameterization include, but are not limited to, controller design, tuning and optimization. The scaling and parameterization methods described here appl... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029663 | COORDINATED JOINT MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM WITH POSITION ERROR CORRECTION Disclosed are an articulated hydraulic machine supporting, control system and control method for same. The articulated hydraulic machine has an end effector for performing useful work. The control system is capable of controlling the end effector for automated movement ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029662 | ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING VIRTUAL METROLOGY WITH RELIANCE INDEX An advanced process control (APC) system, an APC method, and a computer program product, which, when executed, performs an APC method are provided for incorporating virtual metrology (VM) into APC. The present inventions uses a reliance index (RI) and a global similarit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING A HYBRID MODEL A system and method for predicting operation of a plant or process receive an input value from the plant or process. An integrity of a non-linear model corresponding to a local input space of the input value may be determined. The non-linear model may include an empiric... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110320032 | Adaptive method for manufacturing of complicated shape parts hot isostatic pressing of power materials with using irrevesibly deformable capsules and inserts The invention discloses adaptive method for manufacturing of parts of the similar complex shape by using hot isostatic pressing of powder materials and irreversibly deformable capsules and inserts utilized as adaptation tools. The method is based on creation of a virtua... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307082 | Method for Axis Correction in a Processing Machine and Processing Machine A method for axis correction in a processing machine, in particular a shaftless printing machine, has at least one axis for processing and/or transporting a material, at least one detection device for detecting a processing parameter and at least one controller device f... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301723 | USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL TO OPTIMIZE VARIABLE TRAJECTORIES AND SYSTEM CONTROL A method and system of predictive model control of a controlled system with one or more physical components using a model predictive control (MPC) model, determining an iterative, finite horizon optimization of a system model of the controlled system, in order to genera... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110257800 | Particle swarm optimizing sliding mode controller The particle swarm optimizing sliding mode controller is applied to an interconnected Automatic Generation Control (AGC) model. The system formulates the SMC design as an optimization problem and utilizes a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to find the optimal... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLVING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EQUATIONS AND MODEL DEVELOPMENT USING EQUATION EDITOR A system includes a process controller and an equation evaluation apparatus. The equation evaluation apparatus includes an equation editor, a model factory, and an equation evaluation engine. The equation editor is adapted to receive equations describing a process to be... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110218653 | CONTROLLING STATE TRANSITIONS IN A SYSTEM A control system is described for controlling the operation of a target system, such as a data center. The control system uses a prediction module to predict demand for resources of the target system for future time steps. The control system then uses a transition deter... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110196513 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEMAND COORDINATION NETWORK An apparatus for controlling peak demand of a resource. The apparatus includes a plurality of devices and a plurality of control nodes. Each of the plurality of devices consumes a portion of the resource when turned on, and the each are capable of performing a correspon... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110118855 | SCALABLE MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM A control system includes a clustered architecture having a master controller, a central control section including one or more first remote controllers under direct control of the master controller, and a distributed control section including a cluster controller contro... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110112659 | System identification in automated process control The systems and methods described herein allow for automatic identification experiments in a closed loop, where the old control strategy, already tuned and tested, is utilized. The strategy is modified to inject additional signal optimized for identification. The experi... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110112660 | FIRE PROTECTION DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROTECTING AGAINST FIRE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM The invention relates to a fire protection device (1) having an input module (3) designed to receive fire data in a protection area, an evaluation module (2) designed to process fire data and to generate a processing result, and an output module ( 05/12/2011 | |
| 20110087340 | MOVING OBJECT FEED-FORWARD CONTROL METHOD In a case where a position command path for a control position of a load 5 that is equivalent to a moving object is set by issuing a position command Rc(z), a gain for one of a high-frequency component, a specified frequency, and a specified frequency width is co... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110071653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING TUNING PARAMETERS OF A CONTROLLER A method and system for updating tuning parameters associated with a controller without repetitive compilation of a controller code. The controller code represents an algorithm associated with the controller and can be compiled separately from a data set representing a ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066258 | System and Method for Energy Plant Optimization Using Mixed Integer-Linear Programming A method for optimizing operational settings for a plurality of energy devices includes representing each of the plurality of energy devices in terms of a set of decision variables and operational parameters. The decision variables and operational parameters are constra... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110060424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING FUTURE DISTURBANCES IN MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL APPLICATIONS A system and method for predicting future disturbance in MPC applications by segregating a transient part and a steady state value associated with the disturbance. A dynamic state space model that includes a variable disturbance prediction module can be utilized for ana... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110054642 | Optimizing Consumption of Resources Methods, systems and apparatus for optimizing consumption of one or more resources are presented. For example, a method that may be implemented on a processor device and includes obtaining user preferences for the consumption of resources that include water and electric... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110046752 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING POWER GENERATING UNIT A method and apparatus for optimizing the operation of a single or multiple power generating units using advanced optimization, modeling, and control techniques. In one embodiment, a plurality of component optimization systems for optimizing power generating unit compon... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046794 | Multi-Channel Active Control System and Methods for the Reduction of Tonal Noise from an Axial Fan A method of optimizing placement of a control source relative to a noise source includes establishing a first pool of constructive chromosomes, each constructive chromosome defining a potential spatial position for the control source in an acoustic space and each constr... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110035028 | ACCELERATION/DECELERATION CONTROL DEVICE A residual-velocity calculating unit calculates a residual velocity that corresponds to a velocity increment when an acceleration is reduced from a current command acceleration to zero according to an acceleration reduction curve. A differential-velocity calculating uni... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110022193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF A SELF-CONFIGURED, MODEL-BASED ADAPTIVE, PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR MULTI-ZONE REGULATION SYSTEMS A control system simultaneously controls a multi-zone process with a self-adaptive model predictive controller (MPC), such as temperature control within a plastic injection molding system. The controller is initialized with basic system information. A pre-identification... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022194 | TRANSDUCER ACCESS POINT The invention relates to a method and apparatus for exposing (i.e. bridging) data and services offered by low power, low duty cycle transducers (e.g. sensors and actuators) in a standardized format over existing and established home networking technologies. A transducer... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100305719 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMBINING FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD IN MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL A method and system for combining a feedback control and a feedforward control in a linear MPC to minimize effect of model uncertainty. An externally computed feedforward signal, which is more accurate and reliable, can be utilized in association with the MPC. A steady ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100292810 | METHOD FOR ORCHESTRATING SERVICES OF A SERVICE-ORIENTED AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND ORCHESTRATION MACHINE A method for orchestrating services of a service-oriented automation system (SOAS), system components (SMC, LCC) offering services (S, WS) that represent the functionality thereof and requesting services (S) of other system components (SMC, LCC), the behavior of the aut... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100292811 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ADAPTED MEASURING VALUES AND/OR MODEL PARAMETERS FOR CONTROLLING THE AIR FLOW PATH OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES In a method for determining adapted measuring values and/or model parameters for controlling the air flow path of internal combustion engines, at least two measuring values and/or model parameters are simultaneously adapted, at least one total error variable which descr... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100286798 | ECONOMIC CALCULATIONS IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data, such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or informat... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282460 | Converting Organic Matter From A Subterranean Formation Into Producible Hydrocarbons By Controlling Production Operations Based On Availability Of One Or More Production Resources One or more methods, systems and computer readable mediums are utilized to provide treatment of a subterranean formation that contains solid organic matter, such as oil shale, tar sands, and/or coal formation. The treatment of the formation includes heating a treatment ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280631 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling a Distributed Automation System A method and an apparatus for controlling a distributed automation system, wherein the method comprises determining global constraint rules according to the cooperative relationships between function blocks in the distributed automation system, and establishing a mathem... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100268353 | Systems and Methods for Offset-Free Model Predictive Control Techniques, systems and methods for designing, implementing, and operating model predictive controllers that can deliver perfect tracking of set points and that can reject the effect of disturbances when steady-state operation is reached are disclosed. High performance ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100241248 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING THE LAYOUT OF A ROBOT WORK CELL The present invention relates to a method for optimizing the placement of a plurality of workstations (20a-d) in a workcell including an industrial robot (1) programmed to execute a sequence of tasks on the workstations, wherein each task con... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241247 | Embedded dynamic alarm control system A system and method for performing modeling, prediction, optimization and control, which would permit what is, described herein as embedded alarm control. In the proposed method of embedding alarm control, the alarm limits are used to constrain the controlled variables ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241249 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING OXYGEN IN A BOILER A method and apparatus for optimizing air flow to a boiler of a power generating unit using advanced optimization, modeling, and control techniques. Air flow is optimized to maintain flame stability, minimize air pollution emissions, and improve efficiency.... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN OBSERVATION RICH SYSTEMS Diagnostic systems and methods are presented for determining the current condition of a production plant and the resources thereof, in which successively more complex diagnostic abstractions are used to determine the plant condition, with a more complex abstraction bein... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235011 | DETERMINING OPTIMAL SETTINGS FOR RESOURCE ACTUATORS A power model that relates the settings of resource actuators to power consumption levels of the resource actuators and a condition model that relates the settings of the resource actuators to an environmental condition at the location of the at least one entity and a p... | 09/16/2010 |
