Model free distributed optimization for building systems

商业、工业和机构建筑的能源消耗和管理问题一直是工程学许多方面广泛研究和发展的主题。江森自控是建筑系统控制和优化领域公认的世界领先者，成功地为建筑业主和运营商提供了创新和先进的控制、监控和优化解决方案。在这个项目中，我们开发了一种新的控制技术，可以以通用的方式使用，以最大限度地减少通过传感器网络运行的建筑系统的能源消耗。该技术可以实现控制策略的实时计算，从而实现建筑的广泛优化目标。提出的方法是基于极值搜索控制和基于网络的控制领域的最新发展。该项目将与江森自控的专家密切合作，旨在为拟议的技术及其在运行建筑系统控制框架中的实施制定概念验证。

The problem of energy consumption and management in commercial, industrial and institutional buildings has been the subject of extensive research and development in many aspects of engineering. Johnson Controls is a recognized world leader in the area of building systems control and optimization that has successfully provided innovative and advanced control, monitoring and optimization solutions to building owners and operators. In this project, we develop a new control technology that can be used in a generic fashion to minimize energy consumption in building systems operating over sensor networks. This technology enables the real-time computation of control policies that can achieve building wide optimization objectives. The approach proposed is based on recent developments in the area of extremum-seeking control and network-based control. Working closely with the experts at Johnson Controls, the project will be aimed at the development of a proof of concept for the proposed technology and its implementation in an operating building systems control framework.