Patent ID: 7346402

Claim:
A method of performing integrated model generation and controller tuning comprising: acquiring data of physical quantities over time from a system, said acquired data including at least one of the group comprising sampling information, low frequency dynamics, noise levels, system knowledge, time range, amplitude range, steady state dynamics, transition dynamics, operating points, defined control dynamics, and bandwidth; analyzing and preprocessing said acquired data to determine modified data; generating a model from said modified data, said model being a time-domain model and including effects from at least one of the group comprising sampling information, low frequency dynamics, noise levels, system knowledge, time range, amplitude range, steady state dynamics, transition dynamics, operating points, defined control dynamics, and bandwidth; determining a controller design from at least one of said modified data and said model, said controller design including effects from at least one of the group comprising sampling information, low frequency dynamics, noise levels, system knowledge, time range, amplitude range, steady state dynamics, transition dynamics, operating points, defined control dynamics, and bandwidth; and calculating controller parameters from at least one of said modified data and said model, the calculated controller parameters being used to control the system.