Patent ID: 7437071

Claim:
A distributed feedback control system, comprising: a plurality of electromagnetic actuatable mirrors to reflect at least one optical signal from a system input to one of a plurality of a system outputs; a processor system to identify the system input that corresponds to the optical signal and to identify the system output corresponding to the optical signal reflected by the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors; a local controller to position the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors responsive to the identified system input and the identified system output, the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors to reflect the optical signal from the identified system input to the identified system output according to the position of the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors; and a plurality of sensors to detect the optical signal at the system input and the system output, and to determine a difference in the optical signal between the system input and the system output, the local controller to reposition the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors responsive to the determined difference in the optical signal between the system input and the system output, where the local controller to provide information corresponding to the reposition of the electromagnetic actuatable mirrors to the processor system.