DETAILED ACTION
This non-final rejection is responsive to the claims filed 26 October 2023. Claims 1-10 are pending. Claim 1 is an independent claim.
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Double Patenting
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Reference Application 18/495,321
Claims 1-10 rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1-10 of copending Application No. 18/495,321. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other.
Instant Application No. 18495529
Reference Application No. 18495321
1. A method of partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, executed on a hardware platform for controlling a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, said controlled plant being a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system with a predetermined number of control inputs and a predetermined number of system outputs, said method comprising:
1. A method of compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, executed on a hardware platform for controlling a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, said controlled plant being a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system with a predetermined number of control inputs and a predetermined number of system outputs, said method comprising:
step 1: at time k, establishing a dynamic data model of said controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein said dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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step 1: at time k, establishing a dynamic data model of said controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein said dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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step 2: constructing cost functions and solving optimization problems for said cost functions to find an optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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(k) in said step 1 and an optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix
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(k) in said step 1;
step 2: constructing cost functions and solving optimization problems for said cost functions to find an optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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(k) in said step 1 and an optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix
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in said step 1;
step 3: employing said dynamic data model described by said optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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(k) and said optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix
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(k) in said step 2, designing a partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, wherein said control law comprising a partial-form adaptive input matrix
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step 3: employing said dynamic data model described by said optimal value of said pseudo Jacobian input matrix
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in said step 2, designing a compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, wherein said control law comprising a compact-form adaptive input matrix
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step 4: constructing an energy function and solving said energy function by using a momentum gradient descent method to find an optimal value of said partial-form adaptive input matrix
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(k) in said step 3 and an optimal value of said partial-form adaptive disturbance matrix
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(k) in said step 3;
step 4: constructing an energy function and solving said energy function by using a momentum gradient descent method to find an optimal value of said compact-form adaptive input matrix
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(k) in said step 3 and an optimal value of said compact-form adaptive disturbance matrix
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(k) in said step 3;
step 5: controlling said controlled plant by using said partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances with said optimal value of partial-form adaptive input matrix
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(k) and said optimal value of partial-form adaptive disturbance matrix
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(k) in said step 4, weakening the effect of unmeasurable disturbances on actual system outputs of said controlled plant, achieving effective tracking of desired system outputs of said controlled plant.
step 5: controlling said controlled plant by using said compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances with said optimal value of compact-form adaptive input matrix
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(k) in said step 4, weakening the effect of unmeasurable disturbances on actual system outputs of said controlled plant, achieving effective tracking of desired system outputs of said controlled plant.
The differences in dependent claims 2-10 are summarized as describing compact-form in the reference application while describing partial-form in the instant application.
Reference Application 18/495,300
Claims 1-10 rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1-10 of copending Application No. 18/495,300. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other. The differences in claims 1-10 are summarized as describing measurable in the reference application while describing unmeasurable disturbances in the instant application.
The subject matter claimed in the Instant Application is fully disclosed in the referenced copending application in view of Zhang (Model-Free Adaptive Control Compensated with Disturbance) hereinafter known as Zhang and would be covered by any patent granted on that copending application since the referenced copending application and the instant application are claiming common subject matter, as follows: a method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control
However, Application No. 18/495,300 does not teach unmeasurable disturbances.
Zhang teaches using estimation of disturbances. (Zhang: pgs. 1-2)
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention was made to modify the Instant Application such that the method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control is in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances. One would have been motivated to make such a combination to design a disturbance rejection controller, as suggested by Zhang: pg. 1.
Reference Application 18/495,451
Claims 1-10 rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1-10 of copending Application No. 18/495,451. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other. The differences in claims 1-10 are summarized as describing measurable disturbances in the reference application while describing unmeasurable disturbances in the instant application.
The subject matter claimed in the Instant Application is fully disclosed in the referenced copending application in view of Zhang (Model-Free Adaptive Control Compensated with Disturbance) hereinafter known as Zhang and would be covered by any patent granted on that copending application since the referenced copending application and the instant application are claiming common subject matter, as follows: a method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control
However, Application No. 18/495,451 does not teach unmeasurable disturbances.
Zhang teaches using estimation of disturbances. (Zhang: pgs. 1-2)
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention was made to modify the Instant Application such that the method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control is in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances. One would have been motivated to make such a combination to design a disturbance rejection controller, as suggested by Zhang: pg. 1.
Reference Application 18/495,424
Claims 1-10 rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1-10 of copending Application No. 18/495,424. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other. The differences in claims 1-10 are summarized as describing full-form in the reference application while describing partial-form in the instant application.
The subject matter claimed in the Instant Application is fully disclosed in the referenced copending application in view of Zhang (Model-Free Adaptive Control Compensated with Disturbance) hereinafter known as Zhang and would be covered by any patent granted on that copending application since the referenced copending application and the instant application are claiming common subject matter, as follows: a method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control
However, Application No. 18/495,424 does not teach full-form.
Zhang teaches using estimation of disturbances and using full-form, partial, and compact form process models. (Zhang: pgs. 1-2)
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention was made to modify the Instant Application such that the method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control is in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances. One would have been motivated to make such a combination allows to take into account other forms, as suggested by Zhang: pg. 1.
Reference Application 18/495,442
Claims 1-10 rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1-10 of copending Application No. 18/495,442. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other. The differences in claims 1-10 are summarized as describing full-form and measurable disturbances in the reference application while describing partial-form and unmeasurable disturbances in the instant application
The subject matter claimed in the Instant Application is fully disclosed in the referenced copending application in view of Zhang (Model-Free Adaptive Control Compensated with Disturbance) hereinafter known as Zhang and would be covered by any patent granted on that copending application since the referenced copending application and the instant application are claiming common subject matter, as follows: a method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control
However, Application No. 18/495,442 does not teach full-form and unmeasurable disturbances.
Zhang teaches using estimation of disturbances and using full-form, partial, and compact form process models. (Zhang: pgs. 1-2)
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention was made to modify the Instant Application such that the method of model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control is in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances. One would have been motivated to make such a combination to design a disturbance rejection controller, as suggested by Zhang: pg. 1.
Conclusion
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/ALEKSEY OLSHANNIKOV/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2118