Patent Document ID: 20030191561
Application ID: 10351436
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An automatic control system for controlling a dynamic device having device characteristics, the control system including (i) a plurality of sensors and (ii) a plurality of control laws stored in a memory, said system comprising: receiving means for receiving a plurality of status signals and a plurality of current external conditions signals from the sensors, and for receiving a plurality of reference signals; and processing structure for: (i) selecting and applying gain schedules to update the control laws, wherein the gain schedules correspond to the received current external conditions signals, and the gain schedules are generated by transforming the device characteristics into a multi-input linear time invariant coordinates system; (ii) determining control law parameter rates of change and applying the parameter rates of change to update the control laws; (iii) applying the received status signals from the device to update the control laws; and (iv) controlling the device based on the updated control laws.