Patents by Inventor William Albert Gordon Gough, Jr.

William Albert Gordon Gough, Jr. 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).

  • Method and apparatus for adaptive control of marginally stable systems
    Patent number: 6643554
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for adaptive control which models marginally stable systems by creating a reference or disturbance model to account for the slope of the process variable being constant for different control inputs to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Universal Dynamics Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: William Albert Gordon Gough, Jr., Sava Kovac, Mihai Huzmezan
  • Method and apparatus for adaptive control
    Patent number: 5687077
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for adaptive control which does not require a predetermined model of the process to be controlled. The method comprises the steps of 1) setting an initial state vector; 2) setting an initial parameter vector; 3) setting an initial prediction parameter gain between 2 and 10; 4) set the initial covariance matrix; 5) performing a state update 6) estimating the model error; 7) updating the parameter vector, 8) updating the co-variance matrix, and 9) updating the controller output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Universal Dynamics Limited
    Inventor: William Albert Gordon Gough, Jr.