Objective
Over the last few years, the usefulness and maturity of Artificial Intelligence technologies, and in particular of knowledge-based systems, have been demonstrated by the ever growing number of deployed commercial applications. In the domain of real-time control systems, these techniques have been considered with renewed interest, as they appear to offer a promising approach to coping with the increasing complexity of the systems needing to be controlled.
The first objective of the REAKTANSE Trial Application is to demonstrate the suitability and viability of the REAKT technology (Real-time Knowledge Tool), developed in the ESPRIT Projects 5146 and 7805, in an industrial application. REAKT is a high-level environment for developing and delivering real-time expert systems, which has been only partially validated so far, and can therefore be considered as not yet "well founded".
The second objective is the development of the target application, a diagnosis system in a steel plant. The Trial Application will validate both the capabilities of the REAKT technology with respect to performances and ease of use, and the specific reasoning modules which will be added to it. The suitability of the multiexpert approach to enhance the production and the product quality of a steel production plant will also be evaluated in this Trial Application. The need for real-time expert systems is becoming vital for steel plants such as Rautaruukki Oy Raahe Steel Works. As competition is continuously increasing, new techniques have to be used to further improve the process. While this has already been achieved using conventional techniques, further improvements necessitate the use of leading edge technologies, such as diagnosis systems.
A third objective is the extension of the REAKT technology with signal processing and behavioural diagnosis capabilities. This extension remains in the scope of a Trial Application, as extendibility is one of the main features of the REAKT technology requiring validation. The added capabilities should ensure easier re deployment in other application domains.
The target user groups can be split into three widening circles:
- users of the REAKT technology in the Trial Application,
- the first target industrial sector is the steel industry, which will be reached from connections of the project participants in this domain,
- the success of the diagnosis application in steel production based on the REAKT technology, could be generalised to other metallurgy plants and industrial sectors.
Four major phases can be identified in the project:
- A technology transfer phase.
- A technology upgrade phase which will result in specific extensions adapted to the application requirements.
- An application development phase which will produce the running Trial Application.
- An evaluation phase which will provide measurements against which the technology will be evaluated. Re deployment plans will be drawn from the conclusions of this phase.
The project will produce three major deliverables:
- A running application for performing diagnosis in a steel plant, which could be re deployed in similar plants. Measurements of the overall steel production improvement will allow to assess the benefits of the REAKT technology when applied to this application domain.
- An evaluation of the suitability of the REAKT technology for developing such applications.
- A validated and extended REAKT platform, which could be re-used in other application domains.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering signal processing
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence expert systems
- engineering and technology materials engineering metallurgy
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