Motorized system integrated control and diagnostics using vibration, pressure, temperature, speed, and/or current analysis

A method of controlling a motorized system and diagnosing the health thereof, comprising:

• employing a motor drive to operate a motor in the motorized system in a controlled fashion;
• utilizing a component integrated with a controller to diagnose the health of the motorized system according to a measured attribute associated with the motorized system, the motor drive, the controller and the component integrated with the controller form a single entity, the component integrated with the controller includes a section that includes at least one of a fuzzy rule based expert system and an associative list memory neural network component capable of handling long bit strings of data, the fuzzy rule based expert system in bidirectional communication with the associated list memory neural network component;
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• generating a diagnostics signal communicated to the controller.

An integrated control and diagnostics system, comprising:

• means for controlling a motorized system utilizing a health assessment signal indicative of the health of the motorized system;
• means for driving a motorized system based at least in part on input from the means for controlling;
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• means for generating the health assessment signal, the means for generating integrated with the means for controlling and the means for driving to constitute a single unit, the means for generating further includes a means for post processing based on fuzzy rule based logic, the means for post processing utilizes a means for persisting an associative list that handles long bit strings of data, the means for persisting capable of unsupervised training the means for generating the health assessment signal in at least one of a fast learning mode or a slow learning mode.

A composite control and diagnostics system to control a motor, comprising:

• means for effectuating movement of the motor;
• means for controlling the means for effectuating movement in a controlled fashion based in part on a health assessment signal;
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• means for formulating the health assessment signal, the means for effectuating movement, the means for controlling and the means for formulating the health assessment signal forming a single integrated unit, the means for formulating includes means for utilizing fuzzy rule based logic obtained from an expert and means for employing a one-shot unsupervised adaptive resonance theory-2 (ART-2) architecture comprising at least six layers.