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Controlling state transitions in a system

  • US 8,812,674 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2010
  • Issued: 08/19/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for controlling operation of a target system, the target system having a plurality of units to be controlled, the method comprising:

  • for a current time step, predicting demand for resources of the target system, to provide predicted demand for a plurality of future time steps;

    for the current time step, determining state transitions within the target system to address the predicted demand, to provide a plurality of state transitions;

    for the current time step, commencing state transitions which begin in the current time step, each of the plurality of state transitions taking a respective time interval to perform;

    and repeating the predicting, determining, and commencing for a next current time step;

    said determining state transitions comprising;

    determining a sum of demand differences, each demand difference representing a difference, for a particular time step, between a unit demand and an ability to meet the unit demand, at the particular time step.

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