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

Claim 9:
10. A computerized system comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
accessing, 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, generating 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;
parsing 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 the valid conditioning sets, generating an optimal control configuration comprising optimal control variable values associated with the continuous flow process,
wherein generating the optimal control configuration is further based on constructing a deterministic convex optimization problem using a first regime comprising a first set of control variables partitioned into the first regime and an identified time period associated with a set of system state variables;
solving the deterministic convex optimization problem and recording optimal control variables values and constraint dual values;
based on solving the deterministic problem, accessing a standard deviation of a quadratic parameter of a first control variable;
formulating a stochastic optimization problem that corresponds to the deterministic convex optimization problem; and
controlling the continuous flow process in accordance with the optimal control configuration.