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This research introduces an AI-driven pipeline that automates the creation of realistic, standards-compliant evaluation scenarios for industrial agents using Large Language Models. By optimizing generation speed and enforcing physical plausibility through a hybrid validation loop, the study significantly expands benchmark coverage beyond manual authoring limitations without compromising quality. This advancement directly addresses scalability challenges in evaluating autonomous systems within complex Industry 4.0 environments like smart grids.
Synthetic Scenario Generation for Evaluation of Industry 4.0 Agents
arXiv:2607.22563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial agent benchmarks require realistic evaluation scenarios that integrate telemetry, failure modes, maintenance records, and domain standards. However, existing benchmarks such as AssetOpsBench rely on manually authored scenarios and cover a limited set of asset classes. We extend AssetOpsBench with a Smart Grid Transformer asset class and four IEC-grounded diagnostic tools for health-index prediction, dissolved-gas analysis, winding-temperature assessment, and load-profile assessment. We further introduce ScenarioGeneratorAgent, a pipeline for synthetic industrial-agent scenario generation. The pipeline constructs evidence-grounded asset profiles, allocates coverage-aware scenario budgets across operational domains, and generates candidates through a hybrid validation-and-repair loop that enforces schema validity, tool reachability, physical plausibility, standards alignment, and deduplication. To improve scalability, we apply two-level caching, parallel focus-group generation, thread-pool offloading, batched LLM calls, and early rejection filtering. On Smart Grid Transformer scenario generation, these optimizations reduce end-to-end runtime by $8\times$ for 50 scenarios while preserving quality, achieving a composite quality score of $74.2 \pm 1.9$ compared with $73.8 \pm 3.0$ for the unoptimized baseline. These results show that standards-grounded synthetic scenario generation can efficiently expand industrial-agent benchmarks without sacrificing scenario quality.
Title:Synthetic Scenario Generation for Evaluation of Industry 4.0 Agents
Abstract:Industrial agent benchmarks require realistic evaluation scenarios that integrate telemetry, failure modes, maintenance records, and domain standards. However, existing benchmarks such as AssetOpsBench rely on manually authored scenarios and cover a limited set of asset classes. We extend AssetOpsBench with a Smart Grid Transformer asset class and four IEC-grounded diagnostic tools for health-index prediction, dissolved-gas analysis, winding-temperature assessment, and load-profile assessment. We further introduce ScenarioGeneratorAgent, a pipeline for synthetic industrial-agent scenario generation. The pipeline constructs evidence-grounded asset profiles, allocates coverage-aware scenario budgets across operational domains, and generates candidates through a hybrid validation-and-repair loop that enforces schema validity, tool reachability, physical plausibility, standards alignment, and deduplication. To improve scalability, we apply two-level caching, parallel focus-group generation, thread-pool offloading, batched LLM calls, and early rejection filtering. On Smart Grid Transformer scenario generation, these optimizations reduce end-to-end runtime by $8\times$ for 50 scenarios while preserving quality, achieving a composite quality score of $74.2 \pm 1.9$ compared with $73.8 \pm 3.0$ for the unoptimized baseline. These results show that standards-grounded synthetic scenario generation can efficiently expand industrial-agent benchmarks without sacrificing scenario quality.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
I.2.11; H.3.4; C.4
arXiv:2607.22563 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.22563v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
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