Patents by Inventor Steve Ankuo Chien

Steve Ankuo Chien 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).

  • Adaptable state based control system
    Patent number: 6745089
    Abstract: An autonomous controller, comprised of a state knowledge manager, a control executor, hardware proxies and a statistical estimator collaborates with a goal elaborator, with which it shares common models of the behavior of the system and the controller. The elaborator uses the common models to generate from temporally indeterminate sets of goals, executable goals to be executed by the controller. The controller may be updated to operate in a different system or environment than that for which it was originally designed by the replacement of shared statistical models and by the instantiation of a new set of state variable objects derived from a state variable class. The adaptation of the controller does not require substantial modification of the goal elaborator for its application to the new system or environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Robert D. Rasmussen, Daniel L. Dvorak, Kim P. Gostelow, Thomas W. Starbird, Erann Gat, Steve Ankuo Chien, Robert M. Keller
  • Adaptable state based control system
    Publication number: 20020026249
    Abstract: An autonomous controller, comprised of a state knowledge manager, a control executor, hardware proxies and a statistical estimator collaborates with a goal elaborator, with which it shares common models of the behavior of the system and the controller. The elaborator uses the common models to generate from temporally indeterminate sets of goals, executable goals to be executed by the controller. The controller may be updated to operate in a different system or environment than that for which it was originally designed by the replacement of shared statistical models and by the instantiation of a new set of state variable objects derived from a state variable class. The adaptation of the controller does not require substantial modification of the goal elaborator for its application to the new system or environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Robert D. Rasmussen, Daniel L. Dvorak, Kim P. Gostelow, Thomas W. Starbird, Erann Gat, Steve Ankuo Chien, Robert M. Keller