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公开(公告)号:US11415334B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-16
申请号:US16405724
申请日:2019-05-07
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Mohammad N. ElBsat , Matthew J. Ellis , Anas W. I. Alanqar , Michael J. Wenzel
IPC: F24F11/47 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/70 , G05B19/042 , F24F120/20 , F24F120/12 , F24F130/10 , F24F140/50 , F24F140/60 , F24F110/10
Abstract: A controller for maintaining occupant comfort in a space of a building. The controller includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations. The operations include obtaining building data and obtaining occupant comfort data. The operations include generating an occupant comfort model relating the building data to a level of occupant comfort within the space based on the building data and the occupant comfort data. The operations include generating time-varying comfort constraint for an environmental condition of the space using the occupant comfort model and include performing a cost optimization of a cost function of operating building equipment over a time duration to determine a setpoint for the building equipment. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the setpoint to affect the variable state or condition of the space.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018209A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16516928
申请日:2019-07-19
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Matthew J. Ellis , Anas W. I. Alanqar
Abstract: An environmental control system for a building including heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment that operates to affect a temperature of a zone of the building. The system includes a temperature sensor to measure the temperature and a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to operate the HVAC equipment based on a temperature setpoint and gather training data indicating system dynamics. The processing circuit is configured to monitor a temperature tracking error of the zone and a heat transfer value of the HVAC equipment and determine if the HVAC equipment is in a saturation region based on the temperature tracking error and the heat transfer value. The processing circuit is configured to, in response to a determination that the HVAC equipment is in the saturation region, calculate an adjusted temperature setpoint and operate the HVAC equipment based on the adjusted temperature setpoint.
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公开(公告)号:US20200379447A1
公开(公告)日:2020-12-03
申请号:US16428548
申请日:2019-05-31
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Jared W. Fread , Graeme Willmott , Ryan C. Beaty , Shawn A. Schlagenhaft , Matthew J. Ellis , Michael J. Wenzel
IPC: G05B19/418
Abstract: A control system for a central plant having subplants including devices operating to serve energy loads of a building. The system includes a high level optimization module that performs high level optimization of thermal loads subject to constraints to generate subplant load allocations. The control system includes a low level optimization module that performs low level optimization of the subplant load allocations to determine operating states for the devices. The control system includes a constraint modifier that modifies the constraints for the high level optimization module based on equipment schedules. The control system also includes a binary optimization modifier including a pruner module that receives the minimum off schedule to determine adjusted branches and a seeder module that receives the minimum on schedule to determine a starting node for use in binary optimization performed by the low optimization module.
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公开(公告)号:US10809676B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-20
申请号:US16601391
申请日:2019-10-14
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Nishith R. Patel , Matthew J. Ellis , Michael J. Wenzel , Robert D. Turney , Brett M. Lenhardt
IPC: G05D7/00 , G05D11/00 , G05B13/04 , G05B15/02 , G05B17/02 , F24F11/62 , F24F11/30 , G05D7/06 , F24F11/46
Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes indoor subsystems, a high-level controller, and low-level controllers. Each indoor subsystem includes one or more indoor units configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces. The high-level controller generates a plurality of indoor subsystem energy targets, each indoor subsystem energy target corresponding to one of the plurality of indoor subsystems and generated based on a thermal capacitance of one or more building spaces to which heating or cooling is provided by the corresponding indoor subsystem. Each low-level indoor controller corresponds to one of the indoor subsystems and generates indoor setpoints for the one or more indoor units of the corresponding indoor subsystem using the indoor subsystem energy target for the corresponding indoor subsystem and operates the one or more indoor units of the corresponding indoor subsystem using the indoor setpoints.
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公开(公告)号:US20200218991A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16447724
申请日:2019-06-20
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Anas W. I. Alanqar , Matthew J. Ellis
IPC: G06N5/02 , G05B19/042
Abstract: A building management system includes a processing circuit configured to perform a system identification process to identify one or more parameters of a system model that predicts a behavior of a building system. The one or more parameters include one or more model parameters and one or more Kalman gain parameters. The system identification process includes identifying the one or more model parameters, generating an initial guess of the one or more Kalman gain parameters based on the training data and results of a simulation that uses the one or more model parameters, and identifying the one or more Kalman gain parameters by initializing a prediction error minimization problem with the initial guess. The building management system also includes a controller configured to control building equipment to affect the behavior of the building system based on predictions of the system model.
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公开(公告)号:US10673380B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-02
申请号:US16147349
申请日:2018-09-28
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Wenzel , Kirk H. Drees , John I. Ruiz , Matthew J. Ellis , Mohammad N. ElBsat , John H. Burroughs , Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal
Abstract: An energy storage system includes a photovoltaic energy field, a stationary energy storage device, an energy converter, and a controller. The photovoltaic energy field converts solar energy into electrical energy and charges the stationary energy storage device with the electrical energy. The energy converter converts the electrical energy stored in the stationary energy storage device into AC power at a discharge rate and supplies a campus with the AC power at the discharge rate. The controller generates a cost function of the energy consumption of the campus across a time horizon which relates a cost to operate the campus to the discharge rate of the AC power supplied by the stationary energy storage device. The controller applies constraints to the cost function, determines a minimizing solution to the cost function which satisfies the constraints, and controls the energy converter.
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公开(公告)号:US20200041965A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-06
申请号:US16601385
申请日:2019-10-14
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Nishith R. Patel , Robert D. Turney , Matthew J. Ellis
IPC: G05B13/04 , G05B17/02 , G05D23/19 , F24F11/83 , F24F11/62 , F24F11/77 , F24F11/30 , G05B11/01 , F24F3/044 , F28D20/00 , F24F5/00
Abstract: A building HVAC system includes an airside system having a plurality of airside subsystems, a high-level controller, and a plurality of low-level airside controllers. Each airside subsystem includes airside HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces. The high-level controller is configured to generate a plurality of airside subsystem energy targets, each airside subsystem energy target corresponding to one of the plurality of airside subsystems and generated based on a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces to which heating or cooling is provided by the corresponding airside subsystem. Each low-level airside controller corresponds to one of the airside subsystems and is configured to control the airside HVAC equipment of the corresponding airside subsystem in accordance with the airside subsystem energy target for the corresponding airside subsystem.
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公开(公告)号:US20190219293A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16246454
申请日:2019-01-11
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. Elbsat , Matthew J. Ellis , Matthew J. Asmus , Andrew J. Przybylski , Ryan A. Baumgartner , John H. Burroughs , Kirk H. Drees , Robert D. Turney , Graeme Willmott
CPC classification number: F24F11/47 , G05B13/048 , G05B19/418 , G05B2219/32021 , G06Q10/04 , G06Q30/0283 , G06Q50/06
Abstract: A control system for a central energy facility with distributed energy storage includes a high level coordinator, a low level airside controller, a central plant controller, and a battery controller. The high level coordinator is configured to perform a high level optimization to generate an airside load profile for an airside system, a subplant load profile for a central plant, and a battery power profile for a battery. The low level airside controller is configured to use the airside load profile to operate airside HVAC equipment of the airside subsystem. The central plant controller is configured to use the subplant load profile to operate central plant equipment of the central plant. The battery controller is configured to use the battery power profile to control an amount of electric energy stored in the battery or discharged from the battery at each of a plurality of time steps in an optimization period.
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公开(公告)号:US11454940B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-27
申请号:US16418715
申请日:2019-05-21
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Anas W. I. Alanqar , Matthew J. Ellis , Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. ElBsat
Abstract: An environmental control system for a building including building equipment operable to affect a variable state or condition of the building. The system includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit can obtain training data relating to operation of the building equipment and can perform a system identification process to identify parameters of a system model using the training data. The processing circuit can augment the system model with a disturbance model and estimate values of a historical heat disturbance in the training data based on the augmented system model. The processing circuit can train one or more heat disturbance models based on the training data and the estimated values. The processing circuit can predict a heat disturbance using the augmented system model along with the one or more heat disturbance models and can control the building equipment based on the predicted heat disturbance.
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公开(公告)号:US11281173B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-22
申请号:US16703514
申请日:2019-12-04
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. Elbsat , Liming Yang , Matthew J. Ellis , Masayuki Nonaka
IPC: G05B19/042
Abstract: An environmental control system of a building including a first building device operable to affect environmental conditions of a zone of the building by providing a first input to the zone. The system includes a second building device operable to independently affect a subset of the environmental conditions by providing a second input to the zone and further includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform an optimization to generate control decisions for the building devices. The optimization is performed subject to constraints for the environmental conditions and uses a predictive model that predicts an effect of the control decisions on the environmental conditions. The processing circuit is configured to operate the building devices in accordance with the control decisions.
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