Asynchronous Updating Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Decision-making Operational Indices of Uncertain Industrial Processes
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摘要: 运行指标决策问题是实现工业过程运行安全和生产指标优化的关键. 考虑到多运行指标决策问题求解的复杂性和工业过程生产条件动态波动引发生产指标状态的不确定性, 提出了一种策略异步更新强化学习算法自学习决策运行指标, 并给出算法收敛性的理论证明. 该算法在随机自适应动态规划框架下, 利用样本均值代替计算生产指标状态转移概率矩阵, 因此无需要求生产指标状态转移概率矩阵已知. 并且通过引入时钟和定义其阈值, 采用集中式策略评估、多策略异步更新方式用以简化求解多运行指标决策问题, 提高强化学习的学习效率. 利用可测量数据, 自学习得到的运行指标能够保证生产指标优化, 并且限制在规定范围之内. 最后, 采用中国西部某大型选矿厂的实际数据进行仿真验证, 表明该方法的有效性.Abstract: The decision-making operational index has been a key issue for achieving safe and optimal operation of industrial processes. Considering the complexity of decision making of multiple operational indices and the uncertainty of production indices caused by changes of working condition in industrial processes, this paper proposes a reinforcement learning algorithm with policy asynchronous updating for the first time aiming at self-learning operational indices, followed by the theoretical proof of convergence of the proposed algorithm. To this end, under the framework of stochastic adaptive dynamic programming, the sample mean is utilized rather than calculating the state transition probability matrix of production indices, with the outcome that the state transition probability matrix of production indices is not required to be known a priori. Distinctly from traditional synchronized policy updating, the centralized policy evaluation and asynchronous updating of multiple policies are implemented in the proposed algorithm based on the introduction of a time clock with its threshold, such that solving the concerned decision-making problem of multiple operational indices becomes easier and the learning efficiency of reinforcement learning is improved. Thus, the self-learned operational indices using measured data can ensure the optimality of production indices and limit them within the prescribed range. Experiments are conducted using the real date collected from a large-scale mineral processing plant in west China in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach.
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图 1 工业过程运行指标决策问题
Fig. 1 Decision-making problem of operational indices in industrial processes
图 3 多执行－评判结构下运行指标自学习决策流程图
Fig. 3 Flowchart of self-learning decision making of operational indices with multiple actors-critic structure
图 5 精矿产量和精矿品位损失函数
Fig. 5 Loss functions of the concentrate yield and concentrate grade
图 11 策略异步更新和策略同步更新强化学习算法时间消耗对比
Fig. 11 Comparison of time consumption betweenasynchronous policy update and synchronouspolicy update
图 12 考虑工况变化和不考虑工况变化统计结果对比
Fig. 12 Statistic results with and without consideration of dynamics of production condition
表 1 运行指标
Table 1 Operational indices
单元 运行指标 取值范围 (%) 竖炉 $a_1$: 磁管回收率 $a_{1\max} =84.8$ $a_{1\min} =81.3$ 磨矿单元1 $a_2$: 磨矿粒度 $a_{2\max} =84.0$ $a_{2\min} =48.6$ 磨矿单元2 $a_3$: 磨矿粒度 $a_{3\max} =88.8$ $a_{3\min} =63.3$ 强磁选 $a_4$: 精矿品位 $a_{4\max} =53.4$ $a_{4\min} =45.9$ $a_5$: 尾矿品位 $a_{5\max} =23.2$ $a_{5\min} =17.9$ 弱磁选 $a_6$: 精矿品位 $a_{6\max} =57.8$ $a_{6\min} =53.5$ $a_7$: 尾矿品位 $a_{7\max} =20.2$ $a_{7\min} =15.9$ 
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