Method of operating a home appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsFARHAD ASHRAFZADEH, JAMES P. CAROW, MOEED MUKHTAR
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Abstract
A method of operating a home appliance having a treating chamber for receiving an article for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation stored in memory of a programmable controller operably controlling one or more actuators to implement the cycle of operation, the method includes implementing the cycle of operation, receiving sensor feedback, calculating gradients from the sensor feedback, and controlling an actuator based thereon.
Claims21
A method of operating a home appliance having a treating chamber for receiving an article for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation stored in memory of a programmable controller operably controlling one or more actuators to implement the cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- implementing the cycle of operation by executing on the controller a closed loop control algorithm having programmable control variables for at least some of the actuators;
- receiving sensor feedback related to at least one of the control variables for one of the actuators during the implementing of the cycle of operation;
- calculating at least one gradient from the sensor feedback for the at least one of the control variables;
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- controlling the one of the actuators by adjusting the control variable based on the calculated at least one gradient with an auto-tuning algorithm.
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