Towards Self Driving Processes: Leveraging the Data Revolution

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It is widely believed that we are at the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution that will bring a level of automation process industry has never seen before. This optimism is spurred by the rather serendipitous confluence of ubiquitous cyber-physical systems, easy access to large volumes of data, expanding computing power and major theoretical breakthroughs in data analytics. Our group's long term vision is to create self-driving processes similar to self driving cars. A truly self-driving autonomous process will operate with minimal to no human interference by generating necessary process inputs, by learning its dynamics, by automatically tuning its controller, and by detecting, isolating and predicting various faults. This proposal seeks to develop a set of algorithms and computational tools to bring this vision of automation to the process industry.