A self-organization method for logic control of distributed building automation system

Abstract

A new trend in the building automation field is to utilize more intelligent operations and distributed control based on the multi-agent system paradigm. Under the distributed architecture, the logic control problem, such as If-ELSE or sequence control, changes to a complicated distributed cooperative problem. However, rare investigation focuses on the basic logic control problem that is a premise for system implementation, and most studies focus more on distributed optimization problems. Thus, on basis of the analysis of the configuration and programming paradigm for the distributed control system, a self-organization method for logic control is proposed based on the Semi-tensor product, which can realize the plug-and-play of the controller. The detailed implementation process of the proposed method is demonstrated through simulation and experiment. The result indicates that the proposed method can effectively realize the self-organization generation of control logic. The contribution of this study is to introduce the Semi-tensor product to solve self-organizing problems for logic control in the distributed building automation system, which is essentially a matrix operation and makes calculations easier.