UT Arlington patent allows real-time learning based on previous decisions

Smart controllerUT Arlington electrical engineers have patented an innovative method that improves a controller’s ability to make real-time decisions. Frank Lewis, a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department  and at the UT Arlington Research Institute , along with Draguna Vrabie, a senior scientist at United Technologies, and Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, a faculty project research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, were recently issued a patent entitled, “Control Methodology for Online Adaptation to Optimal