# US 2021/0240166 A1 · Systems for autonomous operation of a processing and/or manufacturing facility > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0240166 A1 - Document ID: US20210240166A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/148,732 - Filed: 2021-01-14 - Published: 2021-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2020-01-30 - Applicants: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company - Inventors: Apostolos T. Georgiou; Kiran R. Sheth; George A. Khoury; Onur Onel - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210240166A1 ## CPC - G05B 13/04: involving the use of models or simulators - G05B 19/4155: characterised by program execution, i.e. part program or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a program - G06N 3/0442: characterised by memory or gating, e.g. long short-term memory [LSTM] or gated recurrent units [GRU] - G06N 3/0455: Auto-encoder networks; Encoder-decoder networks - G06N 3/0464: Convolutional networks [CNN, ConvNet] - G06N 3/0475: Generative networks - G06N 3/0495: Quantised networks; Sparse networks; Compressed networks - G06N 3/08: Learning methods - G06N 3/092: Reinforcement learning - G06N 3/094: Adversarial learning - G06N 20/20: Ensemble learning - G05B 2219/31368: MAP manufacturing automation protocol - G06N 5/043: Distributed expert systems; Blackboards - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS ## Abstract A method for operating a processing/manufacturing facility (e.g., processing/manufacturing facility) may comprise: collecting operational conditions in a processing/manufacturing facility from one or more automated systems and/or sensors; communicating the operational conditions to one or more of a plurality of agents that comprise an adaptive analytical model, wherein the plurality of agents comprises an agent selected from the group consisting of: a software sensor agent, a base control stability agent, an alarm agent, a transient process agent, an advanced control optimization agent, a computer vision agent, a display agent, an integrator/orchestrator agent, and any combination thereof; and deriving data, instructions for changing operational parameters of a process of the processing/manufacturing facility, and/or recommendations for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility using the adaptive analytical models of the agents. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: collecting operational conditions in a processing/manufacturing facility from one or more automated systems and/or sensors (automated systems/sensors); communicating the operational conditions to one or more of a plurality of agents that comprise an adaptive analytical model, wherein the plurality of agents comprises an agent selected from the group consisting of: a software sensor agent, a base control stability agent, an alarm agent, a transient process agent, an advanced control optimization agent, a computer vision agent, a display agent, an integrator/orchestrator agent, and any combination thereof; and deriving data, instructions for changing operational parameters of a process of the processing/manufacturing facility, and/or recommendations for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility using the adaptive analytical models of the agents. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising: communicating the data from one of the plurality of agents to another. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising: communicating the recommendations for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility to an operator; and changing the operational parameters of the process based on the recommendations. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising: communicating the instructions for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility to the automated systems/sensors or related hardware. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the adaptive analytical models are independently based on neural networks, decision trees/random forest methods, kernal methods, reinforcement learning methods, and any ensemble thereof. ### Claim 6 A processing/manufacturing facility comprising: one or more automated systems and/or sensors (automated systems/sensors) that monitor operational conditions and/or operate hardware of the processing/manufacturing facility; and a plurality of agents that comprise an adaptive analytical model and that communicate with the one or more automated systems/sensors to receive data from the one or more automated systems/sensors, wherein the plurality of agents comprises an agent selected from the group consisting of: a software sensor agent, a base control stability agent, an alarm agent, a transient process agent, an advanced control optimization agent, a computer vision agent, a display agent, and any combination thereof, and wherein the adaptive model produces data, instructions for changing operational parameters of a process of the processing/manufacturing facility, and/or recommendations for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The processing/manufacturing facility of claim 6, wherein two or more of the plurality of agents communicate with each other. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The processing/manufacturing facility of claim 6, wherein the at least one of the plurality of agents communicates the instructions for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility to the automated systems/sensors or related hardware. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The processing/manufacturing facility of claim 6, wherein the at least one of the plurality of agents communicates the recommendations for changing operational parameters of the process of the processing/manufacturing facility to an operator. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The processing/manufacturing facility of claim 6, wherein the adaptive analytical models are independently based on neural networks, decision trees/random forest methods, kernal methods, reinforcement learning methods, and any ensemble thereof.