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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Erickson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thorkell Gudmundsson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Voyan Technology, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ; G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219497 ; 219490 ; 700 55 ; 700 44 ; 700300 ;
Abstract
The present invention includes a method and system for nonlinear feedforward control for ramp following and overshoot minimization in a plant under control. The present invention augments a feedforward system with a nonlinear compensation mechanism for minimizing the overshoot that occurs in a conventional feedforward system.