Partitioned control system and method

(54) PARTITIONED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD

(76) Inventor: Mark L. Rutherford, 2112 Fairfax Ave., Apartment 116, Nashville, TN (US) 37212

( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.

(21) Appl. No.: 11/214,700

(22) Filed: Aug. 30, 2005

(65) Prior Publication Data

US 2005/0288801 Al Dec. 29, 2005

Related U.S. Application Data

(62) Division of application No. 10/789,221, filed on Feb. 27, 2004, now Pat. No. 6,959,218, which is a division of application No. 09/531,057, filed on Mar. 20, 2000, now Pat. No. 6,721,608.

(51) Int. CI.

G0SB 13/02 (2006.01)
G0SB 11/01 (2006.01)

(52) U.S. CI 700/53; 700/20; 700/28;

700/29; 700/37; 700/45; 700/54

(58) Field of Classification Search 700/8,

700/20, 28-29, 37, 44^15, 53-54 See application file for complete search history.

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Primary Examiner—Anthony Knight Assistant Examiner—Ronald D Hartman, Jr. (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Jones Day

(57) ABSTRACT

A method for controlling a controlled process in response to an input signal and a disturbance signal includes modeling the controlled process in a process model; controlling the process model by a first controller; isolating the first controller from the disturbance signal so that the first controller may be designed for an optimal response to the input signal; driving the first controller by a first drive signal proportional to the difference between the input signal and a process model output signal; isolating a second controller from the input signal so that the second controller may be designed for an optimal response to the disturbance signal; and driving the second controller by a second drive signal proportional to difference between a process output signal and the process model output signal.

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