{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"agentic_control_loop_design__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["polymerization batch operator corrective action viscosity conversion drift feed rate control research","polymerization reactor batch trajectory monitoring endpoint viscosity corrective control paper"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["batch-to-batch control polymerization run-to-run control viscosity conversion operator","process industry operator guidance abnormal situation prevalidated corrective actions decision support procedural operations"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["ISA-88 batch control operator procedural control recipe deviation guidance","Emerson operator guided response batch deviation corrective action DeltaV first party"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["operator decision support safe action menu decision rights process control action feedback","state based control operator decision support abnormal situation management control loop action feedback"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"ISA-88 Series of Standards – Batch Process Control","publisher":"International Society of Automation","url":"https://www.isa.org/standards-and-publications/isa-standards/isa-88-standards","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["ISA-88 supplies established models and terminology for batch-control systems and cross-functional communication.","The series already covers recipe representation, equipment capabilities, control procedures, production records, traceability, machine states, and procedure-presentation formats."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Tracking control for batch processes through integrating batch-to-batch iterative learning control and within-batch on-line control","publisher":"American Chemical Society; record hosted by Newcastle University ePrints","url":"https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/70094","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Prior research combines within-batch response to disturbances with batch-to-batch policy correction for a simulated polymerization process.","It distinguishes corrections useful during the current batch from learning that improves later batches.","Product-quality trajectory tracking, model-based action, feedback, and inter-batch updating are therefore established neighboring concepts, although implemented as automatic control rather than bounded operator choice."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Op-Aide: An intelligent operator decision support system for diagnosis and assessment of abnormal situations in process plants","publisher":"Purdue University","url":"https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3018465/","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Chemical-process operators can face information overload, short decision times, and impaired recall during abnormal situations, with safety and economic consequences.","Op-Aide integrates data acquisition, monitoring, diagnosis, parameter estimation, and simulation-based assessment to support timely operator decisions.","Components were evaluated in simulation and selected monitoring and trend-analysis components were demonstrated on industrial process data."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Batch Control and Operations – DeltaV Distributed Control System","publisher":"Emerson","url":"https://www.emerson.com/is/content/emerson/en/systems-and-software/deltav-distributed-control-system-dcs/brochures-and-flyers/documents/batch-control-and-operations-brochure.pdf","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["A commercial batch platform already combines ISA-88 recipe execution, multivariate modeling displayed to plant staff, operator prompts, batch analytics, histories, and audit trails.","It supports operator recipe changes during execution, action confirmation with one or two signature levels, function-based privileges, observation logs, authorization workflows, rollback, and out-of-range-data flagging.","Simulation playback is offered for operator training and process testing without operating production equipment.","The product describes lost, reworked, and reduced-quality batches and batch-to-batch variability as visible manufacturing problems."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The general problem is visible: chemical-process operators must make time-critical abnormal-situation decisions under information overload, while batch disturbances and quality variation can require within-batch correction and later learning. Commercial batch systems also address costly off-quality batches, operator prompts, permissions, modeling, and histories. The retained evidence does not establish that polymerization operators generally lack interpretable trajectories, must obtain approval for every useful correction, or are held accountable despite missing authority; those site-specific links require record review.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Emerson DeltaV Batch and Syncade workflow","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"],"overlap":"Combines standardized recipes and procedures, operator guidance and prompts, displayed analytics, in-run operator changes, role-based action authority, electronic confirmation, observation logging, histories, rollback, and offline simulation.","remaining_difference":"The retained materials do not describe one deviation card that requires an operator to state a predicted directional response, checks correction-window and sensor-confidence eligibility, and sends prediction mismatch into explicit engineer review that narrows or suspends that action rule."},{"name":"Op-Aide abnormal-situation decision support","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Connects process data, monitoring, diagnosis, parameter estimation, and simulation of future consequences to support operators making time-critical decisions.","remaining_difference":"It does not establish a polymer-batch Safe Action Menu, local execution rights inside a validated recipe envelope, action-linked checkpoint feedback, or proportional-accountability record."},{"name":"Integrated within-batch and batch-to-batch polymerization control","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Couples quality trajectories, immediate disturbance correction, feedback, and correction of subsequent-batch policy in a polymerization example.","remaining_difference":"Selection and updating are controller algorithms rather than operator choices governed by an explicit rights matrix, inspectable assumptions, and escalation boundary."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Compared with an ISA-88/DeltaV-style recipe workflow using the same signals, prompts, permissions, and history, adding a mandatory operator-visible predicted direction, an explicit correction-window and sensor-confidence eligibility check, and prediction-mismatch review that can suspend the menu item will increase the proportion of replayed deviations in which operators identify a defensible authorized action before the recorded correction window without increasing boundary violations.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if the comparison workflow already contains and uses all three distinguishing couplings, or if blinded historical replays show no improvement in timely complete decisions, operators cannot state the predicted response from contemporaneously available information, proposed actions repeatedly need authority or information outside the envelope, mismatch review does not alter later selection, or unsupported and boundary-violating choices increase.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered the proposal directly, run-to-run and abnormal-situation terminology, ISA-88 and a first-party batch product, and combinations of monitoring, decision support, authority, feedback, and model updating. Four opened sources from four publisher contexts were retained, including an official standards source, two primary-research records, and a first-party product source. The conclusion does not rely on failure to find the proposal's exact phrase.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The broad time-critical operator-decision and off-quality batch problem is supported, although the proposed approval-latency and accountability mechanism remains site-specific; accordingly the evidence is only PARTLY_SUPPORTED.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Most components are established, but the remaining claim isolates three observable couplings—predicted direction, eligibility checks, and mismatch-driven menu review—and compares them against a strong standards-based commercial workflow using measurable replay outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A 90-minute shadow replay of one completed deviation can test whether contemporaneous information specifies every loop link, whether an eligible action is selected before the historical correction window, and whether the operator can state its predicted response and halt condition. It changes neither equipment nor recipe and is appropriately limited to design coherence, not production benefit.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The immediate test is offline. Any later implementation is explicitly limited to prevalidated actions, existing interlocks, role-based authority, engineer-owned model revisions, and safe-state escalation. Established batch products demonstrate that simulation, privileges, signatures, audit histories, and rollback can preserve such boundaries. Chemistry-specific process-safety and management-of-change approval would still be prerequisites to a live pilot.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This light, bounded search supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a narrow contrastive replay claim. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, realized safety or quality value, or absence of undocumented plant practices and additional prior art."}