Citation
Mehdi Maasoumy. "Co-design of Control Algorithm and Embedded Platform for Building HVAC Systems". Talk or presentation, 21, May, 2013.

Abstract
The design of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems is crucial for reducing energy consumption in buildings. As complex cyber-physical systems, HVAC systems involve three closely-related subsystems – the control algorithm, the physical building and environment and the embedded implementation platform. In the traditional topdown approach, the control algorithm and the embedded platform are in general designed separately leading to sub-optimal systems. We propose a co-design approach that analyzes the interaction between the control algorithm and the embedded platform through a set of interface variables. We present six control algorithms that take into account the sensing error, and model the relation of control performance and cost versus sensing error. We also capture the relation of embedded platform cost versus sensing error by analysis of the collected data from a testbed. Based on these models, we explore the co-design of the control algorithm and the temperature sensing subsystem of the embedded platform to optimize with respect to energy cost and monetary cost while satisfying the constraints for user comfort level.

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  Platform for Building HVAC Systems</i></a>, Talk
  or presentation,  21, May, 2013.

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  Mehdi Maasoumy. "Co-design of Control Algorithm and
  Embedded Platform for Building HVAC Systems". Talk or
  presentation,  21, May, 2013.

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  @presentation{Maasoumy13_CodesignOfControlAlgorithmEmbeddedPlatformForBuilding,
      author = {Mehdi Maasoumy},
      title = {Co-design of Control Algorithm and Embedded
                Platform for Building HVAC Systems},
      day = {21},
      month = {May},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {The design of heating, ventilation and air
                conditioning (HVAC) systems is crucial for
                reducing energy consumption in buildings. As
                complex cyber-physical systems, HVAC systems
                involve three closely-related subsystems – the
                control algorithm, the physical building and
                environment and the embedded implementation
                platform. In the traditional topdown approach, the
                control algorithm and the embedded platform are in
                general designed separately leading to sub-optimal
                systems. We propose a co-design approach that
                analyzes the interaction between the control
                algorithm and the embedded platform through a set
                of interface variables. We present six control
                algorithms that take into account the sensing
                error, and model the relation of control
                performance and cost versus sensing error. We also
                capture the relation of embedded platform cost
                versus sensing error by analysis of the collected
                data from a testbed. Based on these models, we
                explore the co-design of the control algorithm and
                the temperature sensing subsystem of the embedded
                platform to optimize with respect to energy cost
                and monetary cost while satisfying the constraints
                for user comfort level. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/990.html}
  }
  

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