1778 results about "Controller design" patented technology

A disclosed player tracking unit provides a display and a player tracking controller designed or configured to provide a web-browser on the display. The player tracking unit may include one or more input devices that can receive selections associated with the web-browser. Furthermore, the player tracking unit can include a multimedia board for processing digitally formatted program files for output on the display.

An MPC adaptation and tuning technique integrates feedback control performance better than methods commonly used today in MPC type controllers, resulting in an MPC adaptation/tuning technique that performs better than traditional MPC techniques in the presence of process model mismatch. The MPC controller performance is enhanced by adding a controller adaptation/tuning unit to an MPC controller, which adaptation/tuning unit implements an optimization routine to determine the best or most optimal set of controller design and/or tuning parameters to use within the MPC controller during on-line process control in the presence of a specific amount of model mismatch or a range of model mismatch. The adaptation/tuning unit determines one or more MPC controller tuning and design parameters, including for example, an MPC form, penalty factors for either or both of an MPC controller and an observer and a controller model for use in the MPC controller, based on a previously determined process model and either a known or an expected process model mismatch or process model mismatch range. A closed loop adaptation cycle may be implemented by performing an autocorrelation analysis on the prediction error or the control error to determine when significant process model mismatch exists or to determine an increase or a decrease in process model mismatch over time.

A new current loop control system method is proposed for a single-phase grid-tie power conditioning system that can be used under a standalone or a grid-tie mode. This type of inverter utilizes an inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) filter as the interface in between inverter and the utility grid. The first set of inductor-capacitor (LC) can be used in the standalone mode, and the complete LCL can be used for the grid-tie mode. A new admittance compensation technique is proposed for the controller design to avoid low stability margin while maintaining sufficient gain at the fundamental frequency. The proposed current loop controller system and admittance compensation technique have been simulated and tested. Simulation results indicate that without the admittance path compensation, the current loop controller output duty cycle is largely offset by an undesired admittance path. At the initial simulation cycle, the power flow may be erratically fed back to the inverter causing catastrophic failure. With admittance path compensation, the output power shows a steady-state offset that matches the design value. Experimental results show that the inverter is capable of both a standalone and a grid-tie connection mode using the LCL filter configuration.

In a network system, each server is assigned to at least one relay processing devices. A plurality of switches are arranged in a network and a controller controls the switches. Specifically, the controller designs, in response to a request from a request source switch, a route of a flow from the request source switch to a destination address. Here, the controller refers to assignment information indicating an assignment relationship between servers and relay processing devices to select, as a target, any one relay processing device assigned to a server specified by the destination address, and designs the route so as to include the target. Then, the controller instructs each switch on the designed route to set the flow table such that a packet is forwarded along the designed route.

The invention provides novel closed-loop neuroprosthetic devices and systems for preventing seizures in which control of the delivery of therapeutic electrical stimulation to a neural structure being monitored is determined by the dynamical electrophysiological state of the neural structure. In certain embodiments, a controller which generates predetermined control input is activated based on an Automated Seizure Warning system. Other embodiments of the systems and methods encompass direct control systems wherein the controller design is based on chaos theory. Yet other versions embody model-based control systems in which controller design is based on a model that represents the relationship between the control input and the dynamical descriptor.

A system for handling data of a process with a primary controller and a redundant controller. The primary controller includes a primary processor that is operable to perform tracking data tasks by using a low speed bus to cooperate with a tracker controller for storage of tracking data in a tracker memory. The primary processor is further operable to perform other tasks by using a high speed bus in cooperation with a primary memory. The second bus has an operating rate considerably higher (for example, a factor of two or more) than that of the first bus.

A computerized wagering game apparatus is disclosed. The invention comprises a universal computerized game controller operable to control a computerized wagering game. The apparatus includes a video display device for providing a visual representation of a signal provided by the computerized game controller such that the video display device displays at least one visual image selected from the group consisting of a) computerized wagering game status information and b) symbol elements that change with the play of the wagering game. A communication port communicatively coupled to the computerized game controller is provided, as well as an interface assembly comprising one or more user interface devices. An I/O interface is configured to communicatively couple the interface assembly to the communication port. A method for reconfiguring a computerized wagering game apparatus having a harness for associating memory with output devices in the apparatus is also disclosed. The method comprises a) removing an original special-purpose computerized game controller used to control a computerized wagering game from the apparatus, the original computerized game controller designed to and capable of working exclusively with a particular computerized wagering game apparatus; b) inserting a universal computerized game controller operable to control a video wagering game that can be played on the video wagering game apparatus and an I/O interface that operatively couples the universal computerized game controller to user interface devices of the wagering game apparatus; and c) sending signals from the computerized game controller through the I/O and harness to confirm proper communication between the computerized game controller and the user interface devices.

A technique for dynamically adjusting an output voltage for a welding or cutting operation is provided. The technique allows for varying output voltage at the welding or cutting torch by manipulating the duty cycles of two forward converter circuits. The present disclosure provides methods and systems for increasing synchronized duty cycles in a pair of forward converter circuits in response to increasing output voltage demand then changing a phase shift between the duty cycles in response to further increases in output voltage demand. The present disclosure provides a controller designed to receive input signals and generate output pulse width modulation signals that control the duty cycle width and phase shift of the outputs of the forward converter circuits in response to these signals. Methods of accommodating for the time needed for the transformer core to reset via leading edge or lagging edge compensation are provided.

Systems and methods for providing a secure connection between networked computers are disclosed. A computer may make a request for a secure connection to another networked computer. In response, configuration data may be sent to the requesting computer which configures a protocol on the requesting computer and establishes a secure connection with the other networked computer. This configuration data may advantageously utilize protocols inherent to particular operating systems to setup and establish this secure connection in an automated fashion, and may include a controller designed to both automatically configure such a protocol and automatically establish a secure connection using the protocol.

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 apply to transfer function based controllers, including PID controllers. The parameterization methods also apply to state feedback and state observer based controllers, as well as linear active disturbance rejection (ADRC) controllers. Parameterization simplifies the use of ADRC. A discrete extended state observer (DESO) and a generalized extended state observer (GESO) are described. They improve the performance of the ESO and therefore ADRC. A tracking control algorithm is also described that improves the performance of the ADRC controller. A general algorithm is described for applying ADRC to multi-input multi-output systems. Several specific applications of the control systems and processes are disclosed.

An electric arc welder for creating a welding cycle with a real time current waveform constituting several control parameters by a microprocessor that controls a power supply by a signal so the output of the power supply traces a desired waveform and dynamic reaction behavior to arc conditions defined by the control parameters. The welder has a controller for creating the signal and reading the parameters, a graphic user interface program controlled by input from a graphic user interface computer, a system with a first interface for an interactive display for displaying the desired waveform and dynamic behavior and at least one manipulative control parameter, a second interface for a manual data entry device to change the waveform and/or the parameters and a digital communication link from the graphic user interface to the welder microprocessor controller for causing the welder to perform the desired waveform by controlling the signal. A number of script language files each defining a given type of waveform logic and containing a user manipulative variable table of control parameters and graphical descriptive language to display a waveform to be implemented by the welder is used with an input stage for processing a selected one of the script files into graphic user interface components (readouts, charts, and/or panels) for operating the welder.

The invention relates to the technology of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) control, aims at proposing a UAV locus and attitude cooperative control method and ironing out a defect in the locus planning for each UAV of a conventional UAV cluster, and can effectively reduce the requirements for the positioning precision of the UAV. Therefore, the invention provides a cluster UAV locus and attitude cooperative control method for a safety domain, and the method comprises the following steps: 1, control-oriented four-rotor-wing UAV locus and attitude model building: giving full consideration to the inherent characteristics of a four-rotor-wing UAV and the dynamic factors in flight, and building a locus and attitude mathematic model for the four-rotor-wing UAV; 2, cluster center locus planning: achieving the obstacle avoidance path planning for a cluster UAV central point based on a pseudo-spectral method; 3, safety flight region optimization: completing the optimization of a cluster UAV safetyflight envelope and a cluster UAV optimal formation configuration; 4, distributed cooperative controller design. The method is mainly used in a UAV control occasion.

An industrial control system includes a central controller having a memory containing programmable data including operating programs for operating the controller, control program for controlling an industrial process, and configuration data configuring values used by the operating program and control program. The central controller is designed to control multiple devices also having memory holding programmable data including operating programs and configuration data. A program is executable by the central controller that causes the central controller to identify memories distributed through the industrial control system having programmable data and collect the programmable data from the memories. Accordingly, the collected programmable data may be used to substantially recreate operation of the industrial control system in a second industrial control system having another central controller substantially identical to the industrial controller and multiple devices connected to the central controller.

The invention relates to an intelligent electric vehicle path tracking model prediction control method, belonging to the technical field of control. The aim of the invention is to adopt the intelligent electric vehicle path tracking model prediction control method, wherein the model prediction control method can take account of the safety constraints of a whole vehicle simultaneously and realizeseclectic optimization among vehicle path tracking performance, safety and whole vehicle performance effectively. The method gives thought to intelligent electric vehicle path tracking model building in limited conditions and yaw stabilization controller design based on model prediction control as well as the tracking performance of the vehicle, the safety of the vehicle, the whole vehicle performance, driving comfort and saving and control of energy in the process of carrying out control strategy deduction, and improves the dynamic performance of the whole vehicle. The method gives thought tothe tracking performance of the vehicle (path following and speed following), the safety of the vehicle (preventing slipping, locking, sideward inclining or drifting), the whole vehicle performance (accelerating and braking performance), driving comfort (the change of torque cannot be too great) and saving and control of energy (saving energy on the premise of meeting the performance). The dynamicperformance of the whole vehicle is improved.

A method and circuit enabling off-the-shelf controllers designed for use with a two-level AC drive inverter bridge (1920) to drive inverter bridges with three-or-more levels. Signals from an ordinary induction motor controller or a two-level induction motor controller (2200) are used to drive the twelve-or-more switches of a three-or-more level inverter bridge (1920), as are used in medium-and-high voltage applications. The proper sequence and timing of switching for the three-or-more-level inverter bridge is based in-part upon either the output of the six pulse-width modulators, or the output of the flux and torque control device, or the voltage control device (2210), of the two-level controller (2200).

The invention provides a motor servo system jitter-free sliding mode position control method based on disturbance compensation. According to the method, the nonlinear friction characteristic, external disturbance and other modeling uncertainty of a system are considered, continuous and smooth friction compensation is made for nonlinear friction, and the low-speed servo performance of the motor position servo system is further improved; uncertainty such as non-modeling disturbance is estimated through an extended state observer, feedforward compensation is made when a controller is designed, and the robustness of the actual motor position servo system to external disturbance is improved; jitter and singularity will not be caused to voltage output of the designed terminal sliding mode controller, the controller can guarantee that the state of the system tends to be balanced in a limited time, and the tracking performance of the system is greatly improved; the designed terminal sliding mode controller is simple, has certain robustness to system parameter variation and is more favorable for being applied to engineering practice.

The invention discloses an active satellite attitude and tethered librational and vibrational combination control method based on a tethered dragging system, and the method comprises the following specific steps: 1, building a system dynamics model; 2, carrying out the designing of an adaptive sliding-mode controller; 3, carrying out the designing of a high-order sliding-mode observer; 4, carrying out MATLAB numerical simulation analysis. The analysis of a simulation result indicates that the method effectively inhibits the tether spatial swinging, eliminates the active satellite attitude coupling movement cause by the basis of a tethering point, is better in robustness of a control law, and is good in application prospect in this type of space tasks.

A multi-user document editing system and method. Embodiments of the invention utilize a model-view-controller design pattern to successfully control changes in parallel to underlying backend database information presentation related information. Granularity of protection and check in/check out on family, spread, presentation layer and presentation object. In addition, enables automatic update of changes to all users editing or viewing the information. Changes to the backend database may also include changes to the family hierarchy with real-time update of publication WYSIWYG pages for example. Enables rollback of changes. Instead of waiting constantly for other users to finish editing information before other edits can be made, the typical serial editing methodology is transformed by embodiments of the invention into a parallel methodology that greatly increases throughput and lowers the costs associated with large publications.

The invention provides a descriptor-based PCIE bus DMA controller and a data transmission control method, includes TLP sending engine, TLP receiving engine, interface access control module, DMA transfer control module, descriptor access control module, multi-DMA channel control module, control status register and DMA channel buffer. The DMA transfer process of the DMA controller designed by the invention is completely controlled by a descriptor, and the data bandwidth and the transfer efficiency are improved. DMA data transmission can configure multiple DMA channel, and that priority of each DMA channel, the transmission triggering threshold and the timeout time are programmable, so that the data transmission can be carry out according to the high and low priority, and the real-time data transmission of the specific channel can be guaranteed; The upload/download data buffers of all DMA channels can be dynamically managed to achieve multi-channel DMA multiplexing and ensure the efficiency of DMA transfer bandwidth.

The invention discloses a nonlinear robust controller design method based on back-stepping and sliding mode control technologies and aimed at a nonlinear model of a quad-rotor unmanned plane. A sliding mode controller of a speed-constant reaching law is designed to an attitude angle system of the quad-rotor unmanned plane, and rapid tracking for the attitude angle is ensured. To realize track tracking for the spatial position of the quad-rotor unmanned plane, a sliding mode surface and a virtual control quantity are constructed according to a stepping back control idea to realize nonlinear control law design and system stability design from the kernel to the external layer of a system. After an equation of the related virtual control quantity is obtained, an expected track value of the attitude angle is obtained by solving the equation via arithmetic inverse operation, and a design method of the speed-constant reaching law is used to determine a final input control law of the quad-rotor unmanned plane system. According to the method of the invention, the characteristic that sliding mode control is uncertain for the model and insensitive to external interference is utilized, robust trace tracking for the nonlinear quad-rotor unmanned plane can be controlled under interference.

The invention discloses a business requirement transformation and deployment method for a SDN (Software Defined Network). The method mainly comprises the following steps: 1) a service function chain is built according to network business requirements raised by a user; 2) a local controller reports resource conditions of a bottom network node to a root controller; 3) the root controller designs a service function instance chain; 4) each service function instance is analyzed to be a multistate network strategy selection mechanism; 5) according to the current network state, the root controller selects a proper network strategy to be issued to a corresponding local controller; 6) the local controller combines instances from different service function instance chains on the same network node; 7) the local controller transforms a complicated condition strategy in the same network strategy into a plurality of simple condition strategies; 8) the local controller compiles the combined strategy into an OpenFlow flow table; and 9) the local controller issues the flow table to the bottom network nodes, and the strategy is deployed.