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Building Controls Virtual Test Bed

ptolemyEPlusSimuMac.png
BCVTB system model that links EnergyPlus with Simulink.

News
August 9, 2010: Version 0.7.0 has been released.

Links
Documentation: Manual and source code.
Download and getting started.
Help.

The Building Controls Virtual Test Bed (BCVTB) is a software environment that allows expert users to couple different simulation programs for distributed simulation. For example, the BCVTB allows to simulate a building and HVAC system in EnergyPlus and the control logic in MATLAB/Simulink, while exchanging data between the software as they simulate. The BCVTB is based on the Ptolemy II software environment. The BCVTB is still aimed at expert users of simulation. Due to the different programs that may be involved in distributed simulation, familiarity with configuring programs is essential.

Programs that are linked to the BCVTB are

  • the EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program,

  • the MATLAB and Simulink tools for scientific computing,

  • the Modelica modeling and simulation environment Dymola,

  • the Radiance ray-tracing software for lighting analysis,

  • the BACnet stack, which allows exchanging data with BACnet compliant Building Automation System (BAS).

In addition to using programs that are coupled to Ptolemy II, Ptolemy II's graphical modeling environment can also be used to define models for control systems, for physical devices, for communication systems or for post-processing and real-time visualization.

Typical applications of the BCVTB include:

  • performance assessment of integrated building energy and controls systems,
  • development of new controls algorithms, and
  • formal verification of controls algorithms prior to deployment in a building in order to reduce commissioning time.

The coupling of Modelica allows using EnergyPlus for modeling the building heat flow and daylight availability and using Modelica to model innovative building energy and control systems based on the library that is currently in development at http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/modelica. This allows advanced users to

  • define on the fly new HVAC components and systems in a modular, hierarchical, object-oriented, equation-based graphical modeling environment and couple them to EnergyPlus,

  • innovate new HVAC system and control architectures for which models do not yet exist in off-the-shelve building simulation programs, and
  • analyze dynamic effects of HVAC systems, modeled in Modelica, and their local and supervisory control loops, modeled in MATLAB/Simulink, Modelica or Ptolemy.

Contact

Michael Wetter and Philip Haves
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Building Technologies Department
{MWetter,PHaves}@lbl.gov

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Building Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

Special thanks go to Prof. Edward A. Lee and Christopher Brooks from the University of California at Berkeley for their support in integrating the BCVTB functionality into the Ptolemy II software.

We would also like to thank

  • Gregor Henze, Charles Corbin, Anthony Florita and Peter May-Ostendorp from the University of Colorado at Boulder for their contributions to the MATLAB interface and the EnergyPlus 3.0 upgrade.

  • Rui Zhang from Carnegie Mellon for her contributions to the Windows configuration and the EnergyPlus 3.1 upgrade.

  • Zhengwei Li from the Georgia Institute of Technology for the implementation of the BACnet interface.
  • Andrew McNeill from LBNL for providing the Radiance example.

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