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Caterpillar Inc.

Jeffery Lynn Prewett

Evan Earl Jacobson

Stephen William Bird

James Wallace Harris

Syamala Srinivasan

Michael Patrick Ramm

A cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system may have a heat source, a heat exchanger, and a coolant pump located between the heat exchanger and the heat source to direct coolant from the heat exchanger to the heat source. The cooling system may also have a valve located between the heat source and the heat exchanger. The valve may be movable to vary a rate of coolant flow through the heat exchanger and around the heat exchanger to the coolant pump. The cooling system may further have a sensor located at an inlet of the heat source to generate a signal indicative of coolant temperature at the inlet, and a controller in communication with the valve and the sensor. The controller may be configured to move the valve based on the temperature of the coolant at only the inlet of the heat source.

Cooling system having inlet control and outlet regulation

A method and system may be provided to perform a process for controlling a target system. In one aspect of the invention, the process may include determining a design space (D) including a first set of control data values associated with a set of control variables (X). A model () may be generated that reflects a relationship between the first set of control data values and a first set of response data values associated with a set of response variables (Y). Further, the process may test the model () to determine whether a set of predicted response data values associated with the set of response variables (Y) meets a predetermined criteria based on a set of actual response data values associated with the set of response variables (Y). The design space (D) may then be modified to obtain a relationship between a second set of control data values associated with the set of control variables and a second set of response data values associated with the set of response variables, and the second set of control data values may then be applied to the target system.

Method for controlling the performance of a target system

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Metamora, IL, United States of America

Jeffery Lynn Prewett