CausalPulse: Agentic Copilot for Root Cause Analysis in Smart Manufacturing

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Authors: Association for Artificial Intelligence 2026, Cory Andrew Henson, Utkarshani Jaimini, Chathurangi Shyalika, Amit Sheth
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Abstract

Modern manufacturing systems demand real-time, trustworthy, and interpretable insights into anomalies and their underlying causes. However, conventional pipelines treat anomaly detection, causal inference, and decision-making as siloed tasks, lacking integration, explainability, and adaptability. We present CausalPulse, an intelligent, multi-agent copilot for automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in industrial settings. Built on a modular and extensible architecture, the system leverages standard agentic protocols, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and LangGraph for dynamic tool and agent discovery and seamless orchestration of tasks. Agents dynamically interact to perform data preprocessing, anomaly detection, causal discovery, and root cause analysis through a neurosymbolic workflow that combines symbolic reasoning with neural methods. Intelligent postprocessing pipelines enable automatic chaining of agent tasks, enhancing contextual awareness and adaptability. CausalPulse is evaluated using both an academic public dataset (i.e., Future Factories) and an industrial proprietary dataset (i.e., Planar Oxygen Sensor Element) and shows that the system outperforms traditional baselines in interpretability, trustworthiness, and operational utility. Demo Video: https://tinyurl.com/nhat89bd

Fields of Study & Subjects

Fault Detection and Control Systems Digital Transformation in Industry Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
Underline Science Inc.
Publication date
7 January 2026
Language
EN