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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2008
Applicant:
Anthony Kelly, Monanooag Old Kildimo, IE;
Inventor:
Anthony Kelly, Monanooag Old Kildimo, IE;
Assignee:
Powervation Limited, Limerick, IE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G05F 5/00 (2006.01); G05F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present application provides an adaptive control system for controlling a plant in particular a DC-DC power converter. The control system has two controllers of differing characteristics. The output of the individual controllers Hand Hare combined together to provide a combined control signal H to the plant, where H=αH+(1−α)Hand where the adaptive control system is tuned by adjusting the value of α between 0 and 1 to find an optimum control position.