Design of a Petri Net Based Indoor Energy Saving Automated Supervisory Control System and Development of Indoor Comfort Control Law Using Least Energy Consumption

The purpose of this project is to design an automatic supervisory control system and use least energy consumption control methods to maintain the indoor comfort of a building. The automatic supervisory control system proposed in this project has two designed aspects. The first aspect is designed for avoiding unnecessary wasted energy due to careless behavior. The second aspect is designed to activate the control mechanism once the indoor comfort conditions are out of the normal ranges. In this project, we will use Petri net to model the supervisory control system. In addition to using software to present the operations of the Petri net, we will also justify the appropriateness of the Petri net theoretically. The second part of the proposed project is designed to use the least energy consumption to maintain the indoor comfort conditions within the normal ranges. Basically, the indoor comfort conditions consist of three aspects: (1) visual comfort (2) air quality and (3) thermal comfort. In this project, we will propose a decoupling control strategy to deal with three indoor comfort conditions individually. In addition, we will also build an experimental platform to demonstrate the applicability of our research results. Therefore, our project is planned for three years, and we summarize the major work of each year in the following: 1. First year: we will propose a Petri net based automatic supervisory control system and use software to present its operations as well as the theoretical justification for its appropriateness. 2. Second year: we will propose the least energy consumption based control laws for visual comfort control, CO 2 concentration control and thermal comfort control under the decoupling control strategy. 3. Third year: we will build an experimental platform to demonstrate the proposed supervisory control system and the three indoor comfort control methods then analyze their performance.

Project ID:PB10202-1093
External Project ID:NSC101-2221-E182-040-MY3