Facility management system and methods
AssigneePhaidra, Inc.
InventorsKenzo Spaulding, Vedavyas Panneershelvam, Christopher R. Vause
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Abstract
In variants, an ML-based control system for an industrial facility can include a remote control plane, a client, a set of agents, data processing modules, an optional data store, a telemetry module, a learning module, and/or any other suitable components. In variants, the set of agents can include a facility agent, a set of local cooling agents, and/or any other suitable agents. In variants, the set of agents can include system state approximators and decision models learned via reinforcement learning. The ML-based control system can control components of the industrial facility by predicting and/or determining component setpoints based on power load and/or heat load of the industrial facility.
Claims20
An industrial system comprising:
- a plurality of independent technical cooling loops, wherein each technical cooling loop is thermally connected to a set of computing devices, wherein each technical cooling loop comprises:
- a set of fluidly connected cooling distribution units (CDUs);
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- a set of sensors configured to determine a cooling loop state, wherein the cooling loop state comprises a set of temperatures of the technical cooling loop;
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- a plurality of control agents, wherein each control agent is associated with a different technical cooling loop and a set of models, wherein each control agent is configured to:
- receive the cooling loop state of the respective technical cooling loop and a power signal of the respective set of computing devices;
- using the set of models, determine a set of cooling loop setpoints for the set of CDUs based on the cooling loop state of the respective technical cooling loop and the power signal of the respective set of computing devices, wherein the set of cooling loop setpoints is not determined based on the cooling loop states of other technical cooling loops;
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- control the set of CDUs of the respective technical cooling loop according to the set of cooling loop setpoints.
A system comprising:
- a cooling loop agent associated with a set of cooling distribution units (CDUs) in thermal connection with a set of computing devices, wherein the cooling loop agent comprises a set of thermal approximators, wherein each thermal approximator of the set of thermal approximators is associated with a CDU of the set of CDUs, wherein the cooling loop agent is configured to:
- predict a thermal response for each CDU of the cooling loop using the associated thermal approximator, based on a power signal of the set of computing devices and a supply temperature of the respective CDU;
- determine a set of cooling loop setpoints based on the predicted thermal response for each CDU;
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- control the set of CDUs according to the cooling loop setpoints.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.