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US 12,000,348 B2Granted
Health conscious controller
AssigneeGarrett Transportation I Inc.
InventorsMatej P{hacek over (c)}olka, David Hriadel, Martin Procházka
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AssigneeGarrett Transportation I Inc.
InventorsMatej P{hacek over (c)}olka, David Hriadel, Martin Procházka
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New and/or alternative approaches to physical plant performance control that can account for the health of the physical plant. In one example, a control algorithm is enhanced by inclusion of terms related to optimized performance and terms related to physical plant health. In another example, a performance optimized control solution is determined, a maximum allowed deviation is defined, and a final solution for physical plant control is determined taking into account health factors to minimize health impacts within the maximum allowed deviation from optimized performance, using for example a two-stage analysis. Another example uses a two level system with a low level controller and a supervisory controller, in which the supervisory controller observes health impacts of ongoing operations managed by the low level controller, and modifies one or more parameters used by the low level controller.
A configurable controller for controlling a physical plant having associated therewith a plurality of actuators for controlling an operation of the physical plant and a plurality of sensors for observing a plurality of characteristics of the operation of the physical plant, the configurable controller comprising:
A method of operation in a configurable controller for controlling a physical plant having associated therewith a plurality of actuators for controlling operation of the physical plant and a plurality of sensors for observing a plurality of characteristics of the operation of the physical plant, the configurable controller including a state observer and an optimizer, the method comprising:
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