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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5212765 | On-line training neural network system for process control An on-line training neural network for process control system and method trains by retrieving training sets from the stream of process data. The neural network detects the availability of new training data, and constructs a training set by retrieving the ... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5204872 | Control system for electric arc furnace An improved arc furnace regulator employs neural circuits connected in a multi-layer network configuration with various weighted relationships between the successive layers which are automatically changed over time as a function of an error signal by mean... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5197114 | Computer neural network regulatory process control system and method A computer neural network regulatory process control system and method allows for the elimination of a human operator from real time control of the process. The present invention operates in three modes: training, operation (prediction), and retraining. I... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5191636 | Control system with two level sensor system A system for initiating an action in response to a plurality of variably weighed inputs as a layered configuration, and at least two layers. The first layer has: a) sensors for receiving a plurality of first input signals; b) signal weighting units for ap... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5175678 | Method and procedure for neural control of dynamic processes A neural network control based on a general multi-variable nonlinear dynamic model incorporating time delays is disclosed. The inverse dynamics of the process being controlled is learned represented by a multi-layer neural network which is used as a feedf... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5172490 | Clothes dryer with neurocontrol device A clothes dryer of the dehumidification type is disclosed in which hot air induced by a heater is circulated from a drying compartment through a heat exchanger. A volume, wetness, wetness unevenness, temperature, temperature unevenness of clothes to be dr... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5167009 | On-line process control neural network using data pointers An on-line process control neural network using data pointers allows the neural network to be easily configured to use data in a process control environment. The inputs, outputs, training inputs and errors can be retrieved and/or stored from any available... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5159660 | Universal process control using artificial neural networks Adaptive control for a wide variety of complex processes is provided by an ANN controller with input and hidden layers having a plurality of neurons, and an output layer with a single neuron. The inputs to the ANN are a time sequence of error values, and ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5142612 | Computer neural network supervisory process control system and method A neural network for adjusting a setpoint in process control replaces a human operator. The neural network operates in three modes: training, operation, and retraining. In operation, the neural network is trained using training input data along with input... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5124918 | Neural-based autonomous robotic system A system for achieving ambulatory control of a multi-legged system employs stimulus and response-based modeling. A adapted neural network-based system is employed for dictating motion characteristics of a plurality of leg members. Rhythmic movements neces... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5121467 | Neural network/expert system process control system and method A neural network/expert system process control system and method combines the decision-making capabilities of expert systems with the predictive capabilities of neural networks for improved process control. Neural networks provide predictions of measureme... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5119468 | Apparatus and method for controlling a process using a trained parallel distributed processing network A parallel distributed processing network, previously trained to simulate a process, is responsive to input activations A to produce outputs Y. The activations are representative of the input parameters P of the process and the outputs are representative ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5113482 | Neural network model for reaching a goal state An object, such as a robot, is located at an initial state in a finite state space area and moves under the control of the unsupervised neural network model of the invention. The network instructs the object to move in one of several directions from the i... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5111531 | Process control using neural network A control system and method for a continuous process in which a trained neural network predicts the value of an indirectly controlled process variable and the values of directly controlled process variables are changed to cause the predicted value to appr... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5109275 | Printing signal correction and printer operation control apparatus utilizing neural network An apparatus for printing signal correction and printer operation control, for use in applications such as color copiers, utilizes a neural network to convert input image signals, derived for example by scanning and analyzing an original image, into print... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5089963 | Shifting control for automatic power transmission with learning shifting pattern model and selecting shifting pattern model from closed vehicular driving pattern A transmission gear shifting control system is selective of gear ratio of an automotive automatic power transmission. The control system employes a strategy of learning of driving condition in order to select one of a plurality of vehicle driving pattern ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5063492 | Motion control apparatus with function to self-form a series of motions A motion control apparatus having a control circuit inputted with a current state of an object to be controlled and outputting a motion quantity, includes a first unit for changing the value of a motion quantity by adding a randomly variable quantity to t... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5016188 | Discrete-time optimal control by neural network A neural network determines optimal control inputs for a linear quadratic discrete-time process at M sampling times, the process being characterized by a quadratic cost function, p state variables, and r control variables. The network includes N=(p+r)M ne... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4990838 | Movement trajectory generating method of a dynamical system A movement trajectory generating system of a dynamical system uses neural network units (1, 2, 3) including cascade connection of a first layer (11, 21, 31), a second layer (12, 22, 32), a third layer (13, 23, 33) and a fourth layer (14, 24, 34), to learn... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4978990 | Exposure control apparatus for camera An optical image of an object is incident on a light-receiving unit of a two-dimensional matrix through a photographing lens. An output from the light-receiving unit is input to a first arithmetic logic unit to calculate an actual object brightness value ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4965443 | Focus detection apparatus using neural network means An optical image transmitted through a photographing lens is incident on a light-receiving unit of a two-dimensional matrix. An output from the light-receiving unit is input to a first arithmetic logic unit, and the first arithmetic logic unit calculates ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4907170 | Inference machine using adaptive polynomial networks An inference machine is described which comprises an adaptive polynomial network with the capability of implicitly inferring missing input information contained in time-dependent signals. The proposed network has wide applicability and is characterized by... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4884216 | Neural network system for adaptive sensory-motor coordination of multijoint robots for single postures A neural-like network system that adaptively controls a visually guided, two-jointed robot arm to reach spot targets in three dimensions. The system learns and maintains visual-motor calibrations by itself, starting with only loosely defined relationships... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4774677 | Self-organizing circuits Self-organizing circuits to receive input signals from transducers and the like and operable, under guidance from modifying inputs thereto, to operate in a learning mode and systems embodying such self-organizing circuits. The circuits include mechanisms ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4193115 | Method and apparatus for implementation of the CMAC mapping algorithm An adaptive control system is disclosed in which control functions involving many input variables are computed by referring to data stored in a memory. Each value of the control functions is distributed over a number of physical memory locations, such tha... | 03/11/1980 |
