Project

Kernel Mean Embedding als grote verenigende theorie voor het werken met distributie data in farmaceutische toepassingen

Code
1265624N
Looptijd
01-10-2023 → 30-09-2026
Financiering
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Coding tools and techniques, testing and debugging
  • Engineering and technology
    • Powder and particle technology
    • Sustainable and environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
    • Modelling and simulation
    • Numerical computation
Trefwoorden
distributiegegevens kernelgemiddelde inbedding simulaties in pharm. productietechnologie
 
Projectomschrijving

The pharmaceutical industry is striving towards pharma 4.0 and continuous manufacturing. This move implies the need for high-quality predictive models for simulation and optimisation problems both for unit operations as well as for plant-wide scenarios. In these continuous production lines, much of the measurement data can be expressed as a distribution, e.g. a particle size distribution. Currently, these measurements are reduced to some characteristic and most of the information content is ignored. As such, a non-linear distribution-agnostic data-driven model framework is proposed to leverage the information content: Kernel Mean Embedding (KME). KME translates a distribution to a point in a high dimensional feature space while retaining all information of the distribution, and being computationally efficient. These mean embeddings can be used for representation, visualisation, regression and optimisation problems. Extensions to the theory are proposed to create informative monitoring tools, to make prediction models with complex multi-dimensional distributions, to add uncertainty to the model predictions and to add the concept of statistical significance to KME. Finally, these extensions are used to solve optimisation problems: how to optimally select materials to attain certain target quality attributes? How to interpolate between formulations or how to perform experimental design with particular limitations?