Jason L Stewart

US Patent:

20230039441, Feb 9, 2023

Filed:

Nov 5, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/520551

Inventors:

- Boston MA, US
Joakim Kalvenes - Glencoe IL, US
Jason Thomas Stewart - Venice IL, US
Rohin Wood - Perth, AU

International Classification:

G05B 13/02
G05B 13/04

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing an optimal control configuration for a material processing system are provided. In operation, a material processing engine accesses causal graph input data. Causal graph input data includes input data of a continuous flow process. Based on the causal graph and the input data, a causal graph that aligns with do-calculus manipulations—associated with determining identifiable causal relationships corresponding to input materials of the continuous flow process—is generated. The causal graph is parsed based on the do-calculus manipulations to determine valid conditioning sets associated with estimating a causal impact on an optimization target. Based on the valid conditioning sets, an optimal control configuration comprising optimal control variable values is generated. Generating the optimal control configuration comprising the optimal control variable values associated with the continuous flow process is based on solving a deterministic convex optimization problem and a corresponding stochastic optimization problem.