Patents by Inventor Gabriele Pannocchia

Gabriele Pannocchia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7587253
    Abstract: A partial enumeration model predictive controller and method of predictive control for a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, including providing a solution table with problem solutions to a model predictive control problem for the MIMO system over a partial parameter region; scanning the solution table for an optimal solution for current parameters; using the optimal solution to control the MIMO system when the optimal solution is in the solution table; and using an alternative solution to control the MIMO system when the optimal solution is not in the solution table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation)
    Inventors: James B. Rawlings, Stephen J. Wright, Gabriele Pannocchia
  • Patent number: 7400933
    Abstract: A method of predictive control for a single input, single output (SISO) system, including modeling the SISO system with model factors, detecting output from the SISO system, estimating a filtered disturbance from the output, determining a steady state target state from the filtered disturbance and a steady state target output, populating a dynamic optimization solution table using the model factors and a main tuning parameter, and determining an optimum input from the dynamic optimization solution table. Determining an optimum input includes determining a time varying parameter, determining a potential optimum input from the time varying parameter, and checking whether the potential optimum input is the optimum input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: James B. Rawlings, Gabriele Pannocchia, Nabil Laachi
  • Publication number: 20080071397
    Abstract: A partial enumeration model predictive controller and method of predictive control for a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, including providing a solution table with problem solutions to a model predictive control problem for the MIMO system over a partial parameter region; scanning the solution table for an optimal solution for current parameters; using the optimal solution to control the MIMO system when the optimal solution is in the solution table; and using an alternative solution to control the MIMO system when the optimal solution is not in the solution table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: James B. Rawlings, Stephen J. Wright, Gabriele Pannocchia
  • Publication number: 20050209714
    Abstract: A method of predictive control for a single input, single output (SISO) system, including modeling the SISO system with model factors, detecting output from the SISO system, estimating a filtered disturbance from the output, determining a steady state target state from the filtered disturbance and a steady state target output, populating a dynamic optimization solution table using the model factors and a main tuning parameter, and determining an optimum input from the dynamic optimization solution table. Determining an optimum input includes determining a time varying parameter, determining a potential optimum input from the time varying parameter, and checking whether the potential optimum input is the optimum input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: James Rawlings, Gabriele Pannocchia, Nabil Laachi