Process control using intelligence-based systems.

摘要

A method is provided of designing a monitoring and control system for laboratory and industrial process applications. The method consists of specifying the instruments and controllers to be used for monitoring and control using a graphics and natural language interface, linking the graphical description of the instruments and controllers to the external instruments and controllers through an electronic interface, building an expert system knowledge base for supervising the control of the process or laboratory experiment, defining the inference engine which actually runs the process or experiment, and using the graphics and natural language interface to query the system in real time. Apparatus incorporating this method is also provided.