Dr Panagiotis Petsagkourakis

Safe Model-Based Design of Experiments using Gaussian Processes

 

Abstract

Construction of kinetic models has become an indispensable step in the development and scale up of processes in industry. Model based design of experiments (MBDoE) has been widely used for the purposes of improving parameter precision in highly nonlinear dynamic systems. This process needs to account for both parametric and structural uncertainty, as the feasibility constraints may well turn out to be violated leading to a unsafe experimental condition when an optimally designed experiment is performed, leading in the best case to less informative data sets. In this work, a Gaussian process is utilized in a twofold manner: 1) to quantify the uncertainty realization of the physical system to calculate the plant-model mismatch, 2) to propagate the parametric uncertainty. This method provides a guarantee for the probabilistic satisfaction of the constraints in the context of model-based design of experiments. The method is assisted with the use of adaptive trust-regions in order to facilitate a satisfactory local approximation. The proposed method is able to help the design of optimal experiments starting from limited preliminary knowledge of the parameter set, leading to a safe exploration of the parameter space. The performance of this method is demonstrated through illustrative case studies regarding the parameter identification of kinetic model in flow reactors.

 

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