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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
May. 13, 2024
Quilt Systems, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Matthew Aaron Knoll, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gwendolyn Willemijn Van Der Linden, Redwood City, CA (US);
Quilt Systems, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Heat pump systems, control systems for heat pumps, and methods of controlling heat pumps utilizing distributed control techniques are described herein. Examples of the control systems include multiple control devices distributed amongst a heat pump system. A first of the control devices is configured as a main control device to execute a model predictive control algorithm for the heat pump system. The other, remaining control devices are configured as a shadow control system to monitor the first control device. If a fault or failure occurs in the first control device, the shadow control system elects and initializes a second of the control devices as the main control device to continue executing the model predictive control algorithm uninterrupted. This allows the control system to dynamically react to faults or failures at any one part of the heat pump system while maintaining full operation of the functional parts.