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Patent No.:

US 12724386 B1

Date of Patent:

Sep. 01, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2021

Control device and control method that predicts a future state of the control target using a model segmented by the segmentation unit and calculates a control policy of the control target based on the predicted future state

Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takaaki Sekiai, Tokyo, JP;

Yuya Tokuda, Tokyo, JP;

Takuya Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

MATTINGLY & MALUR, PC

Primary Examiner:

Jigneshkumar C Patel

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G05B 13/04 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G05B 13/048 (2013.01);

Abstract

This control devicecomprises a model construction unitthat constructs a model for simulating a control object, a problem subdivision unitthat subdivides the model constructed by the model construction unit, a control measure calculation unitthat predicts the future status of the control objectusing the model subdivided by the problem subdivision unitand that calculates a control measure for the control objecton the basis of the predicted future status, and an operation command generation unitthat generates operation commands to the control objecton the basis of the control measure calculated by the control measure calculation unit

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