A Tutorial on Autonomous Fault-Tolerant Control Using Knowledge-Grounded LLM Agents

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Fault recovery in process plants still relies heavily on plant operators, especially when faults fall outside predefined supervisory logic. Operators interpret alarms, procedures, P\&IDs, interlocks, and process trends, then decide how to move the plant to a safe operating mode without triggering a shutdown. This paper examines how Large Language Model (LLM) agents can support such recovery decisions. The proposed framework treats the LLM as a constrained supervisory planner. It uses plant-specific knowledge to propose recovery actions, and every proposal is checked by an external validator (symbolic or simulation-based) before actuation. The paper develops three design dimensions for applying the framework: the recovery patterns for which LLM agents are useful, the validation strategies that separate admissible from inadmissible proposals, and the deployment constraints imposed by latency, knowledge engineering, safety integration, and model lifecycle management. To make the framework directly usable, two openly available executable Python environments are provided. Both re-implement established case studies, a modular mixing module and a continuous stirred-tank reactor, extended with configurable faults and defined interfaces for custom recovery and validation methods.

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