Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383235 | Method and hardware architecture for controlling a process or for processing data based on quantum soft computing A method of controlling a process driven by a control signal for producing a corresponding output includes producing an error signal as a function of a state of the process and of a reference signal. A control signal is generated as a function of the error signal an... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7194320 | Method for implementing indirect controller A system and method for implementing an indirect controller for a plant. A plant can be provided with both a direct controller and an indirect controller with a system model or a committee of system models. When the system model has sufficient integrity to satisfy t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7171394 | Global paint process optimization The present invention provides a method of optimizing a painting process for applying a paint layer on an article. The method comprises defining a functional relationship paint processing parameters and a paint layer property (i.e., the average paint layer thickness... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7035695 | Method and apparatus for tuning a PID controller In tuning a controller for a process in a feedback control system, a method is provided for bringing the system into asymmetric self-excited oscillations for measuring the frequency of the oscillations, average over the period value of the process output signal and ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6879971 | Automated method for building a model A method for determining an output value having a known relationship to an input value with a predicted value includes the step of first training a predictive model with at least one output for a given set of inputs that exist in a finite dataset. Data is then input... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6697707 | Architecture for robot intelligence An architecture for robot intelligence enables a robot to learn new behaviors and create new behavior sequences autonomously and interact with a dynamically changing environment. Sensory information is mapped onto a Sensory Ego-Sphere (SES) that rapidly i... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6665650 | Intelligent logic activity resolution Intelligent logic activity resolution (ILAR) is provided for a process. Upon a first trigger event being received, a first subset of conditions of the process is detected. The first subset of conditions is selected based on the first trigger event. When t... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6629089 | Artificial neural network voice coil motor controller A robust Artificial Neural Network controller is proposed for the motion control of a magnetic disk drive voice coil motor (voice coil motor). The neural controller is used to approximate the nonlinear functions (actuator electromechanical dynamics) of th... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6439254 | Mass flow controller automation method and related system An MFC controlling device automation method and related system. The method mainly comprises the steps of automatically controlled algorithmic obtaining of MFC open loop system parameters by an identification technique; automatically controlled algorithmic... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6430544 | Single variable priority constraint fuzzy control system A fuzzy logic controller system comprising a plurality of fuzzy logic controller units cascadably coupled to one another, each controller having a membership processor for receiving a single input signal corresponding to a sensed parameter from a controll... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6415272 | System for intelligent control based on soft computing A reduced control system suitable for control of a nonlinear or unstable plant is described. The reduced control system is configured to use a reduced sensor set for controlling the plant without significant loss of control quality (accuracy) as compared ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6415273 | Method of feed-forward control using control logic with anticipatory learning control A machine control system for controlling an unstable or transition running condition of a machine which is operable by a causative signal and the performance of which is indicatable by an indicative signal. The control system includes: (a) a model-based c... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6345206 | Method for configuring a fuzzy automatic-control device which is used for comparing a measurement signal with a pattern signal The method according to the present invention is used for automatically configuring a fuzzy automatic-control device, in the form of generating transformation criteria. These transformation criteria preferably have change, stop, jump-back and reset rules ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6330553 | Autonomic system for updating fuzzy neural network and control system using the fuzzy neural network An autonomic system for updating a fuzzy neural network includes a process of calculating an estimated value based on fuzzy inference by using a neural network structure, wherein a parameter to be adjusted or identified by fuzzy inference and outputted fr... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6296766 | Anaerobic digester system A method for an anaerobic digester system is provided that employs a cumulative data base to better monitor and control the anaerobic process, as compared with conventional anaerobic digester systems. The method includes the storing and ensiling of a feed... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6212507 | Fuzzy inference circuit using charge coupled device The fuzzy inference circuit includes a sensor sensing a state of a control object, and a charge coupled device storing fuzzy rule function values for at least one fuzzy rule function. The charge coupled device further performs a fuzzy inference on output ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6138109 | Neural network diagnostic classification of complex binary systems A malfunction diagnostic and repair guidance system and method wherein a matrix of numbers indicating the state of a complex binary system is used as an input vector for a neural network pattern processing capability that is focused to distinguish malfunc... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6064997 | Discrete-time tuning of neural network controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems A family of novel multi-layer discrete-time neural net controllers is presented for the control of an multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamical system. No learning phase is needed. The structure of the neural net (NN) controller is derived using a filtere... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6009421 | Device and method for decreasing web breaks in a printing system based on web tension ratios A device and a method use a decision-tree induction analysis to determine a web tension ratio range for which web breaks are less likely to occur within a printing system based on web tension data collected from a plurality of previous runs of the printin... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5923558 | Automated integrated input-output control system apparatus The automated integrated input-output control system apparatus. A versatile industrial control apparatus that can be utilized as a modular unit or integrated into industrial machinery or tools to provide an apparatus and method for programmable control of... | 07/13/1999 |
| 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 process variable, observing the waveform associated with t... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5852817 | Intelligent control apparatus A control apparatus for controlling a control amount of a control target by changing an operating amount which is supplied to the control target, comprises an adjusting section for calculating an adjustment signal in accordance with the control amount mea... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5845269 | Fuzzy control system, particularly for dose rate control in an X-ray diagnostics apparatus A fuzzy control system, particularly for dose rate control in an X-ray diagnostics apparatus, such a control system converting input signals into output signals. A first and a second individual module are provided, whereby respectively at least two input ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5835682 | Dynamical system analyzer A dynamical system analyser (10) incorporates a computer (22) to perform a singular value decomposition of a time series of signals from a nonlinear (possibly chaotic) dynamical system (14). Relatively low-noise singular vectors from the decomposition are... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831850 | Method and device for control over an admissable range with contextual anticipation using fuzzy logic For controlling physical quantities in industrial plants, and particularly in the crude oil processing industries, the chemical and papermaking industries and gas, power stations and distribution networks, the value of a controlled physical quantity, subj... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5828567 | Diagnostics for resistance based transmitter Transmitter in a process control system includes a resistance sensor sensing a process variable and providing a sensor output. Sensor monitoring circuitry coupled to the sensor provides a secondary signal related to the sensor. Analog-to-digital conversio... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5822740 | Adaptive fuzzy controller that modifies membership functions A direct adaptive fuzzy controller having an adaptation mechanism that modifies the locations of output membership functions to improve performance of the fuzzy controller. The controller has a fuzzy rule base that has a different or unique output members... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5796922 | Trainable, state-sampled, network controller A trainable, state-sampled, network controller (TSSNC) or state-sampled controller (SSC) requires little information regarding a plant (as with neural networks), but can use what information is available (as in classical controllers), and provides a linea... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5790898 | Information processing apparatus using finite state machine An information processing apparatus uses a triad-based state transition model which is implemented in a state machine for making rational determinations on the state of a system of interest and for controlling the same to an appropriate state. The triad-b... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5778151 | Method and control device for controlling a material-processing process In the control of a material-processing process in a regulated system, a preliminary adjustment of the system takes place at the beginning of each process cycle as a function of a precalculated process parameter. A material characteristic which is relevan... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5774633 | Supporting neural network method for process operation A method and a system for causing a neural circuit model to learn typical past control results of a process and using the neural circuit model for supporting an operation of the process. The neural circuit model is caused to learn by using, as input signa... | 06/30/1998 |
| 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 manipulation value output circuit for supplying a manipulation value... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5758028 | Fuzzy logic control for computer image generator load management A fuzzy logic load management controller for use with a computer image generator. The load management controller is used use with a computer image generator having a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, and includes an adder that couples inputs... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5742503 | Use of saturation relay feedback in PID controller tuning A method and an apparatus are provided for autotuning a parameter of a PID controller which is employed in a transfer function. The method includes steps of (a) providing a first specific value for the transfer function; (b) computing a first ultimate par... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740324 | Method for process system identification using neural network The method of making the tool, for process system identification that is based on the general purpose learning capabilities of neural networks. The method can be used for a wide variety of system identification problems with little or no analytic effort. ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5737496 | Active neural network control of wafer attributes in a plasma etch process The present invention is predicated upon the fact that an emission trace from a plasma glow used in fabricating integrated circuits contains information about phenoma which cause variations in the fabrication process such as age of the plasma reactor, den... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5737498 | Process automation method and apparatus The invention provides in one aspect a method for generating a schedule for the performance of a process, wherein the process comprises a plurality of steps. Each step of the process comprises one or more operations. The method comprises first obtaining i... | 04/07/1998 |
| 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 an input for receiving a respective input variable and bein... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5704011 | Method and apparatus for providing multivariable nonlinear control A method and apparatus for training and optimizing a neural network for use in controlling multivariable nonlinear processes. The neural network can be used as a controller generating manipulated variables for directly controlling the process or as part o... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5682466 | Information processing apparatus for obtaining output data from plural sets of input and output data values An information processing apparatus, which is easy to design and has functions of high speed processing, learning, and so on, includes a plurality of memories for storing sets of previously known input data (called response pattern data) and correct outpu... | 10/28/1997 |
