Patent ID: 7805952

Claim:
A method for control, comprising: providing a control having an automated processor receiving at least one sensor input and producing at least one control output, and having at least one memory; segmenting an operational space of the control into a plurality of regions selected based on at least the plurality of sensor inputs, each region being associated with data stored in the memory representing a respective model of that region corresponding to at least a sensitivity to temporally related variations in the at least one sensor input, to the at least one output, and a respective statistical variability of that region; adaptively improving the model of a respective region in dependence on at least one of: (a) a statistical variability of the respective region during operation of the control, wherein regions with high statistical variability are subject to increased searching through variation of the at least one output to define different portions of the respective region, as compared to regions of low statistical variability, and concurrently monitoring the at least one input as a at least a basis for adaptively improving the model of the respective region, and (b) a filling density of input-output relationships of the respective region, wherein a region with a low filling density of the operational space is explored to increase a respective filling density and determine an optimum state of the at least one output, and a region with a high filling density is explored less than a region of low filling density, and correspondingly transitioned more directly to a most efficient condition of the at least one output; and storing data defining the adaptively improved model in the at least one memory.