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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185218 | Control apparatus, control method, and engine control unit A control apparatus which is capable of ensuring both high-level stability and accuracy of control, even when controlling a controlled object having extremal characteristics or a controlled object a controlled object model of which cannot be represented. The control... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180519 | Cooperative vehicle diagnostics Embodiments described herein comprise a system and method for corroborative vehicle diagnostic. The corroborative vehicle diagnostic system allows a vehicle to detect a fault indicator experienced by a vehicle subsystem. The corroborative vehicle diagnostic system a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160728 | Methods of determining complete sensor requirements for autonomous mobility A method of determining complete sensor requirements for autonomous mobility of an autonomous system includes computing a time variation of each behavior of a set of behaviors of the autonomous system, determining mobility sensitivity to each behavior of the autonom... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8046089 | Apparatus and method for model predictive control (MPC) of a nonlinear process A method includes obtaining a nonlinear process model modeling a nonlinear process to be controlled. The method also includes obtaining an objective function defining how the process is controlled. The method further includes obtaining a control model defining a dyn... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7890197 | Dual model approach for boiler section cleanliness calculation A method of controlling soot blowers near a heat exchange section includes generating models of both the ideal clean operating condition of the section and the dirty operating condition. The current operating condition of the section is used to calculate a reliabili... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7844350 | Testing of control strategies in a control system controlling a process control plant Test cases to test control strategies of a control process are specified in input files. The instructions in the input files are automatically read by a block tester, which interfaces with the control system to issue the instructions. As a test designer can create t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7809450 | Self-correcting multivariate analysis for use in monitoring dynamic parameters in process environments A method and apparatus for process monitoring are provided. Process monitoring includes (i) generating a multivariate analysis reference model of a process environment from data corresponding to monitored parameters of the process environment; (ii) designating at le... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7792596 | Method of signal transformation for positioning systems A method and apparatus for signal transformation for positioning control in positioning systems is provided. The positioning involves performing a signal transformation by determining a transform and an inverse transform between a triangular reference signal and a m... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761172 | Application of abnormal event detection (AED) technology to polymers The present invention is a method and system for detecting an abnormal event for process units of a Polymers Unit. The method compares the operation of the process units to statistical, engineering or heuristic models. The statistical models are developed by princip... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756592 | Enhanced feedback for plant control A method and system for controlling the behavior of a plant having an input and an output by enhanced feedback. A simulation input signal is derived from an input to be applied to the plant and a simulated signal is generated by simulating an aspect of an assumed be... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7725200 | Validation of configuration settings in an industrial process An automation control system can be efficiently developed and maintained as a hierarchical arrangement of configured components that pass process control parameters received from a control component and return reports back to the control component. In particular, co... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7664556 | Control object model generation device and generation method A control object model generation device of this invention includes a simulation computing unit (5) which executes simulation of a control system including a controlled system represented by a mathematical model and a controller represented by a controller al... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7630778 | Systems and methods for analysis and simulation of package net content decisions The present invention comprises a method for determining a set of fill conditions for packaged goods. More particularly the present invention comprises a method for modeling a preferred set of fill conditions for packaged goods considering relevant regulatory and co... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620461 | Systems and methods for using a combustion dynamics tuning algorithm with a multi-can combustor Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for using a combustion dynamics tuning algorithm with a multi-can combustor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling a gas turbine engine with an engine model can be implemen... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7546169 | Control apparatus for engine having time delay estimating unit increasing or decreasing number of samplings which is quotient obtained by dividing time delay by sampling period of discretization A plant model expressing an object to be controlled by a discrete mathematical model is used. Parameters of the plant model are identified in such a way as to bring an identification error, which is an error between a plant model output of an output when an input to... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7536230 | Control method, temperature control method, adjustment method, temperature controller, program, recording medium and heat treatment device When a work is set on a hot plate and a heat treatment is started and the like, an addition waveform of a target temperature is formed based on a previously formed data of an adjustment value, and a temperature is controlled by adding the addition waveform to the ta... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7441242 | Monitoring performance of a logically-partitioned computer A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment collect a performance metric of a first partition in a logically-partitioned computer. If the difference between the performance metric and an expected performance metric exceeds a threshol... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437201 | Electric motor controller A control system for any type of electric motor that automatically learns the characteristics of the motor and computes a motor model for the motor. The control system uses the computed motor model to produce a closed-loop control design that achieves a particular r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433755 | Controlling the curing of a rubber compound A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428478 | System and method for improving accuracy of baseline models System, method and computer-readable medium for baseline modeling a product or process. A service database contains process data. A preprocessor processes the data into a predetermined format. A baseline modeling component builds a baseline model from the preprocess... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426441 | Methods for determining renal toxins The present invention is based on the elucidation of the global changes in gene expression and the identification of toxicity markers in tissues or cells exposed to a known renal toxin. The genes may be used as toxicity markers in drug screening and toxicity assays.... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424414 | System for combining driving simulators and data acquisition systems and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to systems and methods of integrating driving simulators, data acquisition systems such as, for example, event data recorders, and/or vehicles, as well as to methods of training or providing instruction to drivers using driving simulato... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415358 | Molecular toxicology modeling The present invention is based on the elucidation of the global changes in gene expression and the identification of toxicity markers in tissues or cells exposed to a known renal toxin. The genes may be used as toxicity markers in drug screening and toxicity assays.... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406404 | Method for developing a machine In a method for developing a machine for producing a product, properties of the product to be produced are defined and tasks to be performed for producing the product are defined. The tasks are subdivided into a plurality of sub-tasks, and, based on the sub-tasks, a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7402635 | Process for preparing polyethylene Disclosed is process for producing polyethylene using a slurry loop reactor. The process includes using a mathematical model to predict a plurality of process control parameters based on the desired product properties and reactor characteristics and controlling the ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400934 | Methods and apparatus for polishing control A CMP station can be closed loop controlled by using data obtained by an inline metrology station from a first polished wafer to affect the processing of subsequent polished wafers. The first wafer is polished and measured by the inline metrology station. The metrol... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386355 | Close loop control system and method of the same A close loop control system includes a controlled system having a controlled variable and a control variable, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a feedback control unit. The first and the second detecting units detect the controlled system to outpu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7356371 | Adaptive sensor model The invention provides a method of predicting output values of a physical system from a set of measured inputs of the system using an adaptive model. At each time when a prediction is made, the model is re-initialized to an initial, off-line model and is then refine... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353140 | Methods for monitoring and controlling boiler flames The current invention provides a method and apparatus, which uses symbol sequence techniques, temporal irreversibility, and/or cluster analysis to monitor the operating state of individual burner flames on a appropriate time scale. Both the method and apparatus of t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349746 | System and method for abnormal event detection in the operation of continuous industrial processes Thousands of process and equipment measurements are gathered by the modern digital process control systems that are deployed in refineries and chemical plants. Several years of these data are historized in databases for analysis and reporting. These databases can be... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350108 | Test system for integrated circuits A test board includes a plurality of sockets for connection to a plurality of integrated circuit chips to be tested. A test control device on the board turns on at least one test engine for testing the plurality of chips simultaneously. A checking circuit verifies t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346402 | Technique for an integrated and automated model generation and controller tuning process A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing integrated model generation and controller tuning is presented. The method, apparatus, and computer program product acquires data regarding the system. The data is then analyzed and preprocessed to prov... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346403 | Pid parameter adjustment device A PID parameter adjustment device includes: a model storage section (1) for storing an equation model to be controlled; a PID controller storage section (2) for storing a control algorithm; a constraint condition storage section (3) for storing ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341954 | Method and apparatus for determining an operation status of a plasma processing apparatus, program and storage medium storing same In an operation status determination method for a plasma processing apparatus, a principal component analysis is carried out by using operation status data groups. Processing parameter values in the respective operation status data groups are converted into principa... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343605 | System and method for communicating between software applications, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications Applications to be connected, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications, as well as the communications mechanisms are depicted in the object model of the framework (IF; IF meaning industrial framework) by using wrappers and/or adapters and, as a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340318 | Method and apparatus for assessing controller performance A method includes providing a process controller for controlling a process tool. The process tool is controlled in accordance with a process parameter. Measurements associated with the processing parameter for a plurality of runs of the process tool are accessed. A ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337022 | Constraint and limit feasibility handling in a process control system optimizer An optimization technique for use in driving a process plant controller, such as a model predictive controller, uses an organized, systematic but computationally simple method of relaxing or redefining manipulated, control and/or auxiliary variable constraints when ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337021 | Robust spacecraft controller and method for designing same A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for designing a robust controller. The method comprises the steps of determining a plant model G of the system dynamics; bounding system dynamics unmodeled by the plant model G of the system dynamic... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337092 | Event-based automated diagnosis of known problems System events preceding occurrence of a problem are likely to be similar to events preceding occurrence of the same problem at other times or on other systems. Thus, the cause of a problem may be identified by comparing a trace of events preceding occurrence of the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333922 | System and method of monitoring machine performance A method of monitoring machine operation includes sensing an operating characteristic of a plurality of machines and calculating a performance metric. The performance metric is indicative of the operating characteristic of at least a portion of the plurality of mach... | 02/19/2008 |
