CPS:Medium:Cyber-Enabled Efficient Energy Management of Structures (CEEMS)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。本研究的目的是通过网络基础设施开发控制建筑物能量流的方法。该方法本质上是跨学科的，将电气和机械工程师与计算机科学家聚集在一起，以推进具有多种形式的能源系统（包括发电和存储）的建筑物的模拟，设计，规范和控制方面的最新技术。这个项目的一个重要的新颖之处在于将建筑视为一组重叠、相互作用的网络的基本观点。这些网络包括物理建筑的热力网络、能源分配网络、传感和控制网络以及人际网络，这些网络在过去只被单独考虑。因此，这项工作旨在开发模拟、优化、建模和控制复杂、异构网络的方法，并具体应用于节能建筑。用于现场制冷、供暖和电力生产的成熟分布式和可再生能源的出现，以及网络物理和微电网系统领域的随之而来的发展，为商业建筑能源部门大幅提高能源效率和减少能源相关排放提供了巨大的机会。此外，在培养具有独特的工程和计算机科学混合背景的学生方面，以及在本科和K-12阶段计划的互动方面，也有直接的影响。这些背景是研究网络结构节能管理所需要的。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research is the development of methods for the control of energy flow in buildings, as enabled by cyber infrastructure. The approach is inherently interdisciplinary, bringing together electrical and mechanical engineers alongside computer scientists to advance the state of the art in simulation, design, specification and control of buildings with multiple forms of energy systems, including generation and storage. A significant novelty of this project lies in a fundamental view of a building as a set of overlapping, interacting networks. These networks include the thermal network of the physical building, the energy distribution network, the sensing and control network, as well as the human network, which in the past have been considered only separately. This work thus seeks to develop methods for simulating, optimizing, modeling, and control of complex, heterogeneous networks, with specific application to energy efficient buildings. The advent of maturing distributed and renewable energy sources for on-site cooling, heating, and power production and the concomitant developments in the areas of cyberphysical and microgrid systems present an enormous opportunity to substantially increase energy efficiency and reduce energy-related emissions in the commercial building energy sector. In addition, there is a direct impact of the proposed work in training students with backgrounds in the unique blend of engineering and computer science that is needed for the study of cyber-enabled energy efficient management of structures, as well as planned interactions at the undergraduate and K-12 level.