Autonomous Cognition
for Every Industrial Equipment
and Production Line

· First-principles Physical AI that builds Equipment Agents and Process Agents for mineral processing, metallurgy, and biopharmaceutical industries, enabling closed-loop optimal control.

Mineral Processing· Metallurgy· Biopharmaceutical· Heavy Manufacturing

Why Physical AI?

❌ LLMs Fall Short

Cannot reliably solve governing equations. High compute demands and high latency do not meet industrial closed-loop control requirements.

❌ Offline Simulation Fails

CFD/FEM is offline, open-loop, single-shot. Relies on manual data collection → offline solving → manual PLC setpoints, lacking online autonomy.

✅ Physical AI Agents

First-principles constraints + online learning + safety barriers. Each equipment unit / production line carries an independent closed-loop cognitive engine with millisecond-level self-tuning.

Few-Shot Cold Start

Physical conservation laws provide prior constraints, compressing the feasible solution space by 10²–³×. New equipment requires as few as single-digit operating conditions for parameter identification and controller initialization.

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Cross-Regime Generalization

Physical equations provide structural invariants across operating domains. The agent needs only online identification of a few boundary parameters to transfer to unseen operating regimes without retraining.

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Explainable & Trustworthy

Every decision traces back to physical laws rather than statistical correlations. Control Barrier Functions (CBF) enforce hard constraints guaranteeing safety boundaries are never violated under any operating condition.

9 proprietary dataset categories · 3 industries · 6,000+ batch-level data · PHORCE SDK 26 architectures

Explore our established technical depth

Two Industrial Agent Pillars

From autonomous cognition for a single equipment unit to system-level optimization across entire production lines.

Equipment Agent

Equipment Agent (EA)

The autonomous cognitive brain for a single equipment unit. Embeds thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and mass transfer kinetics into edge computing nodes, enabling equipment-level closed-loop autonomous perception, reasoning and control.

Physics-Constrained Perception — PINN multi-modal soft sensing, online inference of unmeasurable state variables

Online Parameter Identification — Dynamic inverse estimation of physical coefficients under conservation law constraints

Safe Closed-Loop Control — MPC optimal trajectory planning within CBF safety envelopes

Fermenter Furnace Hydrocyclone More →

Process Agent

Process Agent (PA)

The full-process autonomous optimization brain for complete industrial processes. Embeds Physical AI into penicillin fermentation, anode furnace refining, slag-grinding-flotation and other multi-unit continuous processes, enabling process-level closed-loop optimal scheduling.

Full-Process Coordinated Scheduling — Cross-stage multi-agent consensus, eliminating inter-stage bottlenecks

Coupled Material–Energy Balance — Online tracking of coupled mass conservation and energy conservation constraints

Multi-Objective Pareto Optimization — Dynamic Pareto frontier approach for yield–energy–quality trade-offs

Penicillin Fermentation Anode Furnace Refining Slag-Grinding-Flotation More →

Agent Cognitive Loop

Fusing the determinism of physical laws with the learning capability of neural networks, continuously self-iterating within safety boundaries.

CORE EA / PA RUNNING
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Perceive

Fuses temperature, vibration, flow and other multi-source sensor signals to infer in real time the critical process variables that cannot be directly measured — such as slurry fineness, fermentation respiratory quotient, and melt temperature distribution in the furnace.

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INPUT

Temp · Vibration · Flow · Pressure

OUTPUT

Unmeasurable Core State Variables

PINN Soft SensingEdge Inference 100Hz

Validation Metrics

+700%

R² Prediction Accuracy

vs. classical deep learning baselines

-52%

NRMSE Dynamic Error

Phase trajectory convergence rate

<1ms

Closed-Loop Latency

Edge compute direct-to-PLC

Agent Foundry

Modular encapsulation of physical equations, building a rapidly deployable equipment agent matrix.

Fermenter Agent

Online inference of respiratory quotient ($RQ$) and metabolic rates, autonomously adjusting feed flow rate and shear rate in closed loop.

Furnace Agent

Real-time identification of multiphase heat conduction matrices, autonomously seeking the most efficient power delivery curve within safety redline envelopes.

Hydrocyclone Agent

High-frequency inference of vortex-field particle force distributions, sub-second tuning of overflow-underflow split ratios.

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Industrial Applications

Equipment Agents and Process Agents autonomously operate across four industrial scenarios, upgrading offline analysis to real-time closed-loop control.

Process Optimization

Agents search for optimal operating parameters at high speed within CBF safety boundaries, upgrading offline simulation to online real-time self-tuning.

Energy Reduction

Online approach to thermodynamic energy consumption limits, precisely balancing the energy efficiency–yield Pareto frontier, minimizing ineffective auxiliary energy input.

Predictive Maintenance

Tracking physical parameter degradation trajectories, online estimation of Remaining Useful Life (RUL) for critical components, proactively scheduling maintenance windows.

Operator Training

Physics-engine-based real-time simulation feedback, providing decision recommendations and operational guidance for operators.

Co-Defining
Autonomous Industrial Equipment & Production Lines

We invite partners in metallurgy, chemical processing, mineral processing and heavy industry to jointly validate the on-site control capabilities of Physical AI Agents.

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