Patent ID: 11953862
Assignee: THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing system having a processor and memory, cause the processor to:
access, at a material processing engine implemented using the one or more computer processors, causal graph input data from one or more hardware storage devices, the causal graph input data comprising input materials associated with a continuous flow process;
based on the causal graph input data, generate a causal graph that aligns with do-calculus manipulations associated with determining identifiable causal relationships corresponding to the input materials of the continuous flow process;
parse the causal graph based on the do-calculus manipulations to determine valid conditioning sets associated with estimating a causal impact on an optimization target;
based on parsing the causal graph, partition control variables of the causal graph input data into a plurality of regimes comprising a first regime and a second regime, wherein for the first regime and a first control variable, a shortest valid conditioning set is identified for training a machine learning model that predicts a quadratic causal impact of the first control variable on the optimization target;
based on the valid conditioning sets, generate an optimal control configuration comprising optimal control variable values associated with the continuous flow process; and
control the continuous flow process in accordance with the optimal control configuration.