Patent Document ID: 20060287741
Application ID: 11152919
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for creating an on-line operator advisor for use in process simulation and for training simulators for a process having a plurality of independently controllable, manipulated variables and at least one controlled variable dependent upon said independently controllable, manipulated variables comprising the steps of: gathering data about said process by separately introducing a test disturbance in each of said manipulated variables and measuring the effect of the disturbances on said controlled variable; using said effects of the disturbances on said controlled variable to generate a first linearized dynamic model relating said at least one controlled variable to said independently controllable, manipulated variables; interchanging selected final control element position controlled variables with their corresponding selected independently controllable, manipulated PID controller set point variables in said first linearized dynamic model using matrix row elimination mathematics to generate a second linearized dynamic model that has a new set of independently controllable, manipulated variables, said second linearized dynamic model having the dynamics of said selected independently controllable, manipulated PID controller set point variables removed from said second dynamic model and replaced with final control element positions; and externally emulating the regulatory control schemes via mathematical emulators to emulate PID controllers in manual, cascade, or automatic modes to obtain a completed model of said process.