An experience in knowledge acquisition for expert control of industrial processes

Abstract

Designing expert systems for process control requires capturing in a formal framework the knowledge of process operations as is practised by experienced human operators. It also necessitates taking into consideration the reasoning styles of process experts. In an attempt to understand the mechanics involved, a real life, operational process was taken up for study under the AUTO_SAFE project. This paper presents the experience, to provide a reference for workers in this domain.