Control system with automatic optimization formulation
AssigneeJohnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
InventorAndrew J. Przybylski
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Abstract
A control system configured to serve one or more energy loads in a building comprises equipment configured to consume, produce, or store one or more resources including electricity, water, natural gas, steam, hot thermal energy, cold thermal energy, or electrical energy. The control system includes an asset allocator configured to receive an input model that describes a physical layout of the equipment and create a net list that defines connections between the equipment using the input model. The asset allocator is configured to discover one or more systems of interconnected equipment and one or more groups of equipment using the net list, formulate an optimization problem using the systems and groups of equipment, and operate the equipment according to the optimization problem.
Claims20
A method for operating equipment, the method comprising:
- obtaining modeling input describing a physical layout of equipment that operate to consume, produce, or store one or more resources;
- determining one or more systems or groups of interconnected equipment based on the modeling input by determining one or more cycles formed by the interconnected equipment, a cycle comprising a path of directed connections between the equipment that forms a closed loop;
- formulating an optimization problem using the systems or groups of interconnected equipment;
- and
- operating the equipment according to the optimization problem.
A control system for equipment that operate to produce, consume, or store one or more resources, the control system comprising one or more processing circuits configured to:
- obtain modeling input describing a physical layout of the equipment;
- determine one or more systems or groups of interconnected equipment based on the modeling input by determining one or more cycles formed by the interconnected equipment, a cycle comprising a path of directed connections between the equipment that forms a closed loop;
- formulate an optimization problem using the systems or groups of interconnected equipment;
- and
- operate the equipment according to the optimization problem.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining modeling input describing a physical layout of equipment that operate to consume, produce, or store one or more resources;
- formulating a simulation of the equipment based on the modeling input by determining one or more cycles formed by the equipment, a cycle comprising a path of directed connections between the equipment that forms a closed loop;
- and
- operating the equipment according to the simulation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.