Generating control commands from schematized rule sets

A device for generating control commands, the device comprising:

• a processor and a memory having machine-readable instructions for execution on the processor, the instructions, when executed by the processor, provide on the processor or one or more hardware units of the device a plurality of logical components, including:
• a receiving component configured to receive a document that includes at least one declaration that formulates a rule set;
• a structuring component configured to structure the at least one declaration, to generate a plurality of syntactical blocks;
• a construction component configured to construct terms and symbols from the syntactical blocks, to generate a semantic representation, wherein the semantic representation includes at least one semantic tree, the semantic tree including a plurality of terms and symbols that unambiguously represent both semantics and logical connections of the rule set;
• a validation component configured to validate the semantic representation, wherein the validation of the semantic representation includes an automatic validation of the rule set in terms of at least one of completeness, consistency, or application to an individual case, wherein the validation of the semantic representation includes a recursive semantic tree analysis of the at least one semantic tree for recognizing first order errors and second order errors in the semantic representation, wherein a first order error is directly recognized without further analysis of the remaining rule set using stored data and wherein a second order error is determined through combinatorics or symbolic reshaping of terms and their logical evaluation;
• a generator component configured to generate at least one control command based on the validated semantic representation, wherein the at least one control command corresponds to the rule set formulated by the at least one declaration;
• a converting component configured to convert the at least one control command into a plurality of executable platform-specific instructions;
• and
• an execution component configured to, in response to execution of the plurality of executable platform-specific instructions, drive an operation or operational state of a target platform.

A system, comprising:

• an open- and/or closed-loop platform translatable by at least one control command into a system state;
• at least one memory medium that stores at least one declaration that formulates a rule set for the platform;
• and
• at least one device, that includes
• a processor, and
• a memory having machine-readable instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions, when executed by the processor, set up the processor to generate, from the rule set formulated by the at least one declaration, the at least one control command for the platform and further to execute a method, comprising:
• receiving a document that includes the at least one declaration that formulates the rule set;
• parsing the at least one declaration to generate a plurality of syntactical blocks;
• constructing terms and symbols from the syntactical blocks, to generate a semantic representation, wherein the semantic representation includes at least one semantic tree, the semantic tree including a plurality of terms and symbols that unambiguously represents both semantics and logical connections of the rule set;
• validating the semantic representation, wherein validating the semantic representation includes:
• employing an automatic validation of the rule set in terms of at least one of completeness, consistency, or application to an individual case;
• employing a recursive semantic tree analysis of the at least one semantic tree for recognizing first order errors and second order errors in the semantic representation, including:
• directly recognizing a first order error without further analysis of the remaining rule set using stored data;
• and
• determining a second order error through combinatorics or symbolic reshaping of terms and their logical evaluation;
• generating the at least one control command based on the validated semantic representation, wherein the at least one control command corresponds to the rule set formulated by the at least one declaration;
• converting the at least one control command into a plurality of executable platform-specific instructions;
• and
• in response to execution of the plurality of executable platform-specific instructions, driving an operation or operational state of the platform.