GOALI: The Design of an Intelligent Control System for Appliances

这个学术联络与工业（GOALI）奖的赠款机会为适应性智能家电控制器的新颖设计的开发提供资金。 该控制器将用于大型白色电器，包括冰箱，洗衣机，烘干机，烤箱和洗碗机。 该项目将解决智能家用电器开发的两个目标。 第一个目标是开发一种通用的智能控制模块，它可以用于各种电器。 该模块将能够通过使用包括模糊逻辑和人工神经网络在内的智能系统来适应其环境。 第二个目标是为通用电器控制器的定制创建开发环境，这使得能够进行设计以用于重用、减少开发时间以及针对国际市场进行设计。 该项目的任务将包括硬件组件和设计的标准化、开发通用嵌入式操作系统以及为智能模块开发可重复使用的嵌入式控制对象和软件。 一旦标准的建立和基本的智能控制模块的设计，开发环境将设计。 开发环境将使用户能够设计逻辑，开发主机软件，开发网络通信，并建立数据采集协议。 开发环境还将允许集成测试和开发安全系统。如果成功，这项研究的结果将是一个新的设计环境，可适应智能家电控制器，其中用户将能够个性化的通用智能控制模块，以根据他或她的需要执行。这种设计环境将是产品开发系统的关键，它将缩短产品上市时间，消除多余的需求周期，降低系统开发成本，并提高整体产品质量。

This Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award provides funding for the development of a novel design for adaptable intelligent appliance controllers. The controllers will be used in large white appliances which include refrigerators, washers, dryers, ovens, and dishwashers. This project will address two objectives in the development of intelligent appliances for the household. The first objective is the development of a generic smart control module, which can be used in a variety of appliances. This module will be able to adapt to its environment through the use of intelligent systems including fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. The second objective is the creation of the development environment for the customization of the generic appliance controllers, which enables designing for reuse, reducing development time, and designing for an international marketplace. The project tasks will include standardization of the hardware components and designs, the development of a generic embedded operating system and the development of re-usable embedded control objects and software for the smart module. Once the standards are established and the base smart control module designed, the development environment will be designed. The development environment will give the user the ability to design the logic, develop the host software, develop the network communications, and establish the data acquisition protocol. The development environment will also allow for integration testing and developing security systems.If successful, the results of this research will be a novel design environment for adaptable intelligent appliance controllers in which the user will be able to personalize the generic smart control module to perform according to his or her needs. This design environment will be the key to a product development system that will reduce the time-to-market, eliminate excess requirement cycles, lower system development cost, and improve overall product quality.