Distributed control of non-linear coupled systems with a single output

US6915267B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Warren B. Jackson · San Francisco, US
• David K. Biegelsen · Portola Valley, US
• Tad Hogg · Mountain View, US
• Chee We Ng · Cambridge, US
• Andrew Berlin · San Jose, US
• Koenraad Van Schuylenbergh · Mountain View, US
• Carlos Mochon · Boston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0206
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention encompasses a control system and method for systems of producing and consuming units. The method of the invention includes the steps of setting each producing unit to have an output responsive to an analog signal representative of a market price, and connecting each producing unit to a marketwire, with the changes in the analog signal on the marketwire representing changes in the market price resulting from inputs from the consuming units and the output response of each producing unit.