Methods and systems for constructing production plans

US8219437B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Lukas D. Kuhn · San Diego, US
• Robert R. Price · Palo Alto, US
• Johan de Kleer · Los Altos, US
• Minh Binh Do · Mountain View, US
• Rong Zhou · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 2008
• Grant date: Jul 10, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 3, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods are presented for constructing production plans to achieve one or more production goals, in which a diagnosis engine determines the production plant condition based on a previously executed plan, observations from the plant, and a plant model, and formulates a heuristic based on a diagnostic objective, and with a planner to performing a partial-plan search using the heuristic to construct the plans that will concurrently achieve at least one production goal and facilitate the diagnostic objective.