Patents by Inventor Geneviève Silvestro

Geneviève Silvestro 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: 7139643
    Abstract: A control device includes a main servocontrol loop having a servocontrolled system, and a compensation device on the input side of the control device. The control device includes an internal loop that receives a first signal derived from the main servocontrol loop as input, and generates, as a function firstly of the first signal and secondly of a second signal characteristic of a parameter of the servocontrolled system, an error signal characteristic of the difference between said second signal and a theoretical signal determined using a model. The error signal being injected into the main servocontrol loop to correct the control of the servocontrolled system. The internal loop and/or the main loop include a variable gain amplifier, and the control device controls the gain of the variable gain amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Systemes Aeronautiques Civils
    Inventor: Genevieve Silvestro
  • Publication number: 20060041339
    Abstract: Control device comprising a main servocontrol loop that comprises a servocontrolled device, and compensation means on the input side of this servocontrolled device, the said device comprising a secondary loop that receives a signal derived from the servocontrol loop as input, and generates an error characteristic of the difference between a signal characteristic of a parameter of the servocontrolled device and a theoretical signal determined using a model, as a function firstly of this input signal and secondly of the said signal characteristic of a parameter of the servocontrolled device, this error signal being injected into the main loop to correct the control of the servocontrolled device, characterised in that the secondary loop and/or the main loop comprise at least one variable gain amplifier, the said device comprising means for controlling the gain of the said amplifier as a function firstly of the said signal characteristic of a state of the servocontrolled device, and secondly a signal derived from
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventor: Genevieve Silvestro
  • Patent number: 6693399
    Abstract: The invention relates to a servo-control device comprising at least one servo-control loop which receives a servo-control signal as input and whose output acts on an element to be servo-controlled, said device comprising means for determining a parameter characterizing the real force generated by the servo-control, the device also including a loop having means for determining an error characteristic of the difference between said parameter characterizing the real force and a parameter characterizing an acceptable theoretical force which is a function of the servo-control signal, and also means for correcting the processing of the servo-control loop as a function of said error. The means for determining the error make use of a reference model which is advantageously a transfer function relating force to a flow rate control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: TRW Systemes Aeronautiques Civils
    Inventor: Geneviève Silvestro
  • Publication number: 20020038841
    Abstract: The invention relates to a servo-control device comprising at least one servo-control loop which receives a servo-control signal as input and whose output acts on an element to be servo-controlled, said device comprising means for determining a parameter characterizing the real force generated by the servo-control, the device also including a loop having means for determining an error characteristic of the difference between said parameter characterizing the real force and a parameter characterizing an acceptable theoretical force which is a function of the servo-control signal, and also means for correcting the processing of the servo-control loop as a function of said error. The means for determining the error make use of a reference model which is advantageously a transfer function relating force to a flow rate control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventor: Genevieve Silvestro
  • Publication number: 20020020786
    Abstract: A position servo-control device comprising at least one servo-control loop and a servo-controlled system placed in said loop, said loop having compensation means which comprise means for filtering at one or more resonant frequencies concerning displacement for the mechanical part(s) of position controlled by the servo-controlled system, the device including compensation means implementing filtering at one or more frequencies constituted by resonant frequencies for the forces exerted on the servo-controlled system and/or on the mechanical parts it controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Corinne Gouhier, Genevieve Silvestro