3 papers
cs.LG2025
HOFLON: Hybrid Offline Learning and Online Optimization for Process Start-Up and Grade-Transition Control
Alex Durkin, Jasper Stolte, Mehmet Mercangöz
Start-ups and product grade-changes are critical steps in continuous-process plant operation, because any misstep immediately affects product quality and drives operational losses.…
eess.SY2025
Safe Deployment of Offline Reinforcement Learning via Input Convex Action Correction
Alex Durkin, Jasper Stolte, Matthew Jones +4
Offline reinforcement learning (offline RL) offers a promising framework for developing control strategies in chemical process systems using historical data, without the risks or c…
eess.SY2024
PI-CoF: A Bilevel Optimization Framework for Solving Active Learning Problems using Physics-Information
Liqiu Dong, Marta Zagorowska, Tong Liu +2
Physics informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently been proposed as surrogate models for solving process optimization problems. However, in an active learning setting collectin…