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R.H. Fusillo

Bio: R.H. Fusillo is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Process (engineering). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 94 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a strategy is proposed for the systematic synthesis of operating procedures for chemical processing facilities, which is based on artificial intelligence techniques, most importantly planning with constraints, and the concept of stationary states are used as targets during procedure planning and real-time operations.

52 citations

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TL;DR: A modelling method is presented which combines local causal models for identifying unit manipulations with numerical models to verify effects of process manipulations and to determine feasibility of this systematic synthesis of operating procedures for chemical processing systems.

42 citations


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TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to sketch the directions that research and industrial applications of “intelligent systems” have taken in several areas of process engineering, and identify the emerging trends in each area, as well as the common threads that cut across several domains of inquiry.

195 citations

Proceedings Article
11 Jul 1993
TL;DR: In this article, a method to exploit quantitative knowledge more fully by deriving and numerically simulating an extremal system whose solution is guaranteed to bound all solutions of the SQDE is presented.
Abstract: Semiquantitative models combine both qualitative and quantitative knowledge within a single semiquantitative qualitative differential equation (SQDE) representation. With current simulation methods, the quantitative knowledge is not exploited as fully as possible. This paper describes dynamic envelopes - a method to exploit quantitative knowledge more fully by deriving and numerically simulating an extremal system whose solution is guaranteed to bound all solutions of the SQDE. It is shown that such systems can be determined automatically given the SQDE and an initial condition. As model precision increases, the dynamic envelope bounds become more precise than those derived by other semiquantitative inference methods. We demonstrate the utility of our method by showing how it improves the dynamic monitoring and diagnosis of a vacuum pump down system.

88 citations

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TL;DR: It is shown that domain-independent planning methodologies using the functional operators required for the synthesis of operating procedures are computationally intractable, and justifies the adoption of a domain-specific approach to the planning of process operations.

70 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1990 as mentioned in this paper, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston, MA
Abstract: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1990.

70 citations

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TL;DR: An approach based on Grafcet, a discrete event modeling concept, to represent procedural knowledge combined with an object-oriented representation of the declarative knowledge for automating operating procedure synthesis for batch processes is proposed.

64 citations