Narrow and Deep: An Ontology Tower as the Knowledge of an LLM Agent for an Industrial Equipment System
This study addresses the misjudgments in industrial equipment control caused by LLM agents lacking domain knowledge, proposing a "narrow but deep" ontology tower architecture. This approach integrates physical quantity derivation with operational logs to transform tacit experience into explicit knowledge nodes. Through ontology engineering and physical relational reasoning, it achieves streamlined entity representation and semantically rich knowledge modeling, injecting real-time PLC data and historical knowledge into LLM agents. Experimental results demonstrate that a 9B-parameter model performs comparably to a 750B-parameter counterpart, reducing critical misjudgment rates by approximately 20%. Furthermore, in physical system evaluations, the method successfully regulated controlled variables into target ranges in 12 out of 14 trials.