Patents by Inventor Mouhacine Benosman
Mouhacine Benosman 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).
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Patent number: 11808472Abstract: A system a method for controlling an operation of HVAC system is provided. The system comprises at least one processor; and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to receive data indicative of the operation of the HVAC system and optimize a cost function to reduce a difference between a full thermal state of the conditioned environment simulated from the received data based on a physical model of airflow including a partial differential equation (PDE) and a thermal state of the conditioned environment reconstructed by an observer using a reduced order model (ROM) of airflow including an ordinary differential equation (ODE) from values of the full thermal state at a set of locations, wherein optimization of the cost function is a multivariable optimization of a structure of the observer and a structure of the ODE.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Saleh Nabi, Ankush Chakrabarty, Mouhacine Benosman, Sanjana VijayShankar
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Publication number: 20230341141Abstract: A computer-implemented method using a reinforcement learning trained reduced order estimator (RL-trained ROE) and a closure model is provided for controlling a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system including actuators. The method uses a processor coupled with a memory storing instructions implementing the method, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, carry out at steps of the method, includes acquiring setpoints of the HVAC system from a user input and measurement data from sensors arranged in the HVAC system, computing a high-dimensional state estimate using the measurement data and an estimate of reduced-order state from the RL-trained ROE, determining a controller with respect to the setpoints by using the RL-trained ROE, generating control commands based on the controller, and transmitting the control commands to the actuators of HVAC system via an output interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Saleh Nabi, Mouhacine Benosman, Saviz Mowlavi
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Patent number: 11790247Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented includes a data-driven model and a robust closure model stored in a memory by using a processor for controlling a system. The computer-implemented method includes steps of acquiring sensor signals from at least one sensor of the system via an interface, computing a state of the system based on the sensor signals, determining a gain of the robust closure model based on the state of the system, reproducing a state of the system based on the determined gain, estimating a physics-based model of the system by combining the data-driven model and the robust closure model, and generating control commands by mapping the state of the system using the estimated physics-based model.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Saleh Nabi
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Publication number: 20230267250Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for generating device parameters of circuits using a pretrained reinforcement learning (RL) agent composed of a graph neural network (GNN) and a fully connected neural network (FCNN). The method is performed by steps including acquiring inputs with respect to a set of desired specifications or one desired specification of a circuit, device parameters, a fixed topology of the circuit and providing the inputs to the RL agent. The desired circuit description includes a graph modeling the topology of the circuit and device parameters of the circuit, and the desired specifications include gain, bandwidth, phase margin, power consumption, output power and power efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Rui Ma, Mouhacine Benosman, Weidong Cao
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Patent number: 11640162Abstract: A controller for controlling a system having uncertainties in its dynamics subject to constraints on an operation of the system is provided. The controller is configured to acquire historical data of the operation of the system, and determine, for the system in a current state, a current control action transitioning a state of the system from the current state to a next state. The current control action is determined according to a robust and constraint Markov decision process (RCMDP) that uses the historical data to optimize a performance cost of the operation of the system subject to an optimization of a safety cost enforcing the constraints on the operation, wherein a state transition for each of state and action pairs in the performance cost and the safety cost is represented by a plurality of state transitions capturing the uncertainties of the dynamics of the system.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Reazul Russel, Jeroen van Baar
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Patent number: 11513484Abstract: A controller for controlling a system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Orlando Romero
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Publication number: 20220374725Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented includes a data-driven model and a robust closure model stored in a memory by using a processor for controlling a system. The computer-implemented method includes steps of acquiring sensor signals from at least one sensor of the system via an interface, computing a state of the system based on the sensor signals, determining a gain of the robust closure model based on the state of the system, reproducing a state of the system based on the determined gain, estimating a physics-based model of the system by combining the data-driven model and the robust closure model, and generating control commands by mapping the state of the system using the estimated physics-based model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Saleh Nabi
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Publication number: 20220316736Abstract: A system a method for controlling an operation of HVAC system is provided. The system comprises at least one processor; and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to receive data indicative of the operation of the HVAC system and optimize a cost function to reduce a difference between a full thermal state of the conditioned environment simulated from the received data based on a physical model of airflow including a partial differential equation (PDE) and a thermal state of the conditioned environment reconstructed by an observer using a reduced order model (ROM) of airflow including an ordinary differential equation (ODE) from values of the full thermal state at a set of locations, wherein optimization of the cost function is a multivariable optimization of a structure of the observer and a structure of the ODE.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Saleh Nabi, Ankush Chakrabarty, Mouhacine Benosman, Sanjana VijayShankar
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Publication number: 20220308530Abstract: A system for performing a task according to a reference trajectory is provided. The system includes at least one actuator configured to change a state of the system according to a control input, and a memory configured to store a model of dynamics of the system including a known part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system and the control input to the system and an unknown part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system, wherein the unknown part of the dynamics of the system is represented by parameters of a probabilistic distribution including a first-order moment and a second-order moment of the probabilistic distribution. The system also includes a control system configured to recursively determine and submit the control input to the actuator to change the state of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Devesh Jha
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Publication number: 20220305646Abstract: A system for parameter tuning for robotic manipulators is provided. The system includes an interface configured to receive a task specification, a plurality of physical parameters, and a plurality of control parameters, wherein the interface is configured to communicate with a real-world robot via a robot controller. The system further includes a memory to store computer-executable programs including a robot simulation module, a robot controller, and an auto-tuning module a processor, in connection with the memory. In this case, the processor is configured to acquire, in communication with the real-world robot, state values of the real-world robot, state values of the robot simulation module, simultaneously update, by use of a predetermined optimization algorithm with the auto-tuning module, an estimate of one or more of the physical, and said control parameters, and store the updated parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Siddarth Jain, Jeroen van Baar, Radu Ioan Corcodel, Alan Sullivan, Mouhacine Benosman
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Publication number: 20220198253Abstract: An auto-tuning controller for improving a performance of a power amplifier system is provided. The controller includes an interface including input terminals and output terminals, the interface being configured to acquire input signal conditions of power amplifiers (PAs), a training circuit including a processor and a memory running and storing a Digital Doherty amplifier (DDA) controller (module), a DPD controller (module) and a DDA-DPD neural network (NN).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Rui Ma, Chouaib KANTANA, Richard C Waters
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Publication number: 20220200539Abstract: An autotuning controller is provided for improving power efficiency and linearity of digital power amplifiers (DPAs). The controller includes an interface including input and output terminals connected to the DPAs, the interface being configured to acquire input signals and output signals, a digital pre-distortion (DPD)-DPA adaptive controller including a processor and a memory running and storing a DPD algorithm, an efficiency enhancement method and a learning cost function.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Rui Ma, Chouaib KANTANA
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Patent number: 11336231Abstract: A Digital Power-Amplifier (DPA) system includes a power amplifier (PA) circuit having control inputs and an output for generating output signals, and an adaptive control circuit that comprises an input interface, an output interface, a memory storing an adaptive control algorithm and a processor performing instructions based on the adaptive control algorithm in connection with the memory, wherein the input interface receives input-state signals and output signals of the DPA circuit, wherein the adaptive control algorithm determines, in response to the input-state signals and the output signals, control parameters of control signals transmitted to the control inputs from the output interface for controlling operations of the DPA circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Rui Ma, Mouhacine Benosman, Soyeon Jeong
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Publication number: 20220121188Abstract: A controller for controlling a system having uncertainties in its dynamics subject to constraints on an operation of the system is provided. The controller is configured to acquire historical data of the operation of the system, and determine, for the system in a current state, a current control action transitioning a state of the system from the current state to a next state. The current control action is determined according to a robust and constraint Markov decision process (RCMDP) that uses the historical data to optimize a performance cost of the operation of the system subject to an optimization of a safety cost enforcing the constraints on the operation, wherein a state transition for each of state and action pairs in the performance cost and the safety cost is represented by a plurality of state transitions capturing the uncertainties of the dynamics of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Reazul Russel, Jeroen van Baar
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Publication number: 20210291826Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an operation of a system is provided. The apparatus comprises an input interface configured to receive a state trajectory of the system, and a memory configured to store a model of dynamics of the system including a combination of at least one differential equation and a closure model. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to update the closure model using reinforcement learning (RL) having a value function reducing a difference between a shape of the received state trajectory and a shape of state trajectory estimated using the model with the updated closure model, and determine a control command based on the model with the updated closure model. Further, the apparatus comprises an output interface configured to transmit the control command to an actuator of the system to control the operation of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Ankush Chakrabarty, Saleh Nabi
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Publication number: 20210257972Abstract: A Digital Power-Amplifier (DPA) system includes a power amplifier (PA) circuit having control inputs and an output for generating output signals, and an adaptive control circuit that comprises an input interface, an output interface, a memory storing an adaptive control algorithm and a processor performing instructions based on the adaptive control algorithm in connection with the memory, wherein the input interface receives input-state signals and output signals of the DPA circuit, wherein the adaptive control algorithm determines, in response to the input-state signals and the output signals, control parameters of control signals transmitted to the control inputs from the output interface for controlling operations of the DPA circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Rui Ma, Mouhacine Benosman, Soyeon Jeong
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Publication number: 20210178600Abstract: A controller for optimizing a local control policy of a system for trajectory-centric reinforcement learning is provided. The controller includes performing steps of learning a stochastic predictive model for the system using a set of data collected during trial and error experiments performed using an initial random control policy, estimating mean prediction and uncertainty associated, determining a local set of deviations of the system using the learned stochastic system model, from a nominal system state upon use of a control input at a current time-step, determining a system state with a worst-case deviation, determining a gradient of the robustness constraint, providing and solving a robust policy optimization problem using non-linear programming to obtain system trajectory and stabilizing local policy simultaneously, updating the control data according to the solved optimization problem, and output the updated control data via the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Devesh Jha, Patrik Kolaric, Arvind Raghunathan, Mouhacine Benosman, Diego Romeres
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Publication number: 20210124320Abstract: A controller for controlling a system is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Orlando Romero
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Publication number: 20210124321Abstract: A controller for controlling a system is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Orlando Romero
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Patent number: 10915108Abstract: A vehicle control system for driving a vehicle toward a source while avoiding an obstacle includes a first sensor to measure a first intensity of a source signal from the source, a second sensor to detect an obstacle and a second vehicle. The system includes an interface to receive data of a second intensity of the source signal measured by the second vehicle and transmit the data of the first and second intensities via a wireless channel, a memory to store the data of the first and second intensities, an autonomous program, a leader algorithm and a follower algorithm for autonomously driving the vehicle, a processor to select and perform one of the leader algorithm and the follower algorithm and generate control signals, and a machinery control circuit to drive a machinery of the vehicle according the control signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Jorge Poveda