A New Systematic Design Approach for Distributed Control and Building Performance Simulation

摘要

Demand for distributed simulations between control modeling and building performance applications is rapidly growing as the preferred means for supporting design studies of Automated Buildings (ABs) that are becoming increasingly complex because of urgent needs for developing sophisticated improvements in building indoor environments. In order to overcome problems in meeting the occupants’ needs while reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, it requires using distributed simulations to study the impact of advanced control strategies on building performance applications through virtual representations rather than using experiments, which are usually time-consuming and cost-prohibitive. For this reason, this paper mainly describes the development and implementation of a framework for distributed simulations involving different software tools over a network. The main role of this framework is analogous to a cooperative middleware that distributes one or more building performance simulation tool(s) and control modeling environment by run-time coupling over a network as qualified by similarity to Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) architecture. The paper finishes by giving an outlook on the present work for further developments.