Development of an innovative Autonomous Model Development Tool (AMDT) for boosting manufacturing process competencies

总体愿景是开发一种新颖的自主模型开发工具（AMDT），该工具将消除现有技术的缺陷，以充分代表复杂和不稳定生产链中过程内部和过程之间的复杂因果关系。这将涉及利用基因转录调节控制网络的基本应用原理和生物免疫系统的适应性特性来构建因果关系作为自主控制网络的技术发展。为了实现其目标，该项目将超越现有的基于人工智能的“黑匣子”系统，由于不使用真正的基于因果的过程关系，这些系统容易出现相关性退化。好处是过程控制的响应性和有效性的阶梯式变化，以及成本、质量、交付和环境可持续性过程能力的极大改进。学术合作伙伴epsrc资助的自主研究将在AMDT中使用。

The overall vision is to develop a novel Autonomous Model Development Tool (AMDT) that will remove the failings of existing technology to fully represent the complex causal relationships within and between processes along complex and volatile production chains. This will involve the development of techniques that structure the causal relationships as autonomous control networks using the basic application principles of gene transcription regulatory control networks and the adaptive properties of biological immune systems. In achieving its aim the project will go beyond existing AI-based ‘black box' systems prone to correlation-degeneration through not using real causal-based process relationships. Benefits are step-changes in the responsiveness and effectiveness of process control, and greatly improved cost, quality, delivery and environmental sustainable process competencies. Academic partner’s EPSRC-funded autonomous research will be used within the AMDT.