Patent US 4,179,730

Disclosure is made of a self-optimizing control system for an object with a unimodal quality function. The system comprises an object, a divider, a band-pass filter, an averaging filter, a multiplier, a final control element and an adder which are all placed in series to form a closed loop. The system further includes a search signal generator connected to a second input of the adder. The object's input is also connected to a second input of the divider. Second and third inputs of the final control element are connected to an input and output, respectively, of the band-pass filter. An output of the final control element is connected to a second input of the multiplier.