Patent Document ID: 6102958
Application ID: 08835539
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. In a power plant, a planning and control system for determining output trajectories of a predefined output behavior and input control commands for achieving the predefined output behavior, the system comprising: (a) means for acquiring data related to at least one process variable of the power plant; (b) means for organizing the acquired data and generating at least one state input-output string therefrom; (c) means for fusing the strings into associative clusters, the clusters forming a function oriented, goal-independent provisional model of the power plant; (d) means for generating a multiresolutional data structure based upon the associative data clusters for transforming the provisional model into at least one level of resolution incorporating embedded local dynamics of the power plant; (e) means for searching the multiresolutional data structure at varying levels of resolution to determine an optimal trajectory of operation for achieving the predefined output behavior; and (f) means for generating control signals for controlling at least one operational variable of the power plant such that the power plant operates according to the optimal trajectory.