Consensus-Based Coordination and Control for Building Automation Systems

This brief presents coordination and control for heating energy distribution in building automation systems. Building thermal networks consist of rooms that are interconnected through communication and physical heat transfer networks. Since there exist heat generation constraints and temperature constraints of rooms, it is required to coordinate heat generation at each room and control heat flows among rooms. The temperature of each room is determined by heat generation coordination and heat flow control. In this brief, the heating energy distribution is achieved by consensus-based coordination and control in a distributed manner. Consensus schemes using only local information are employed to the heat generation coordination and the heat flow control. The validity of the proposed approaches is investigated through an illustrative example.