<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philip Haves</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peng Xu</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Building Controls Virtual Test Bed – a Simulation Environment for Developing and Testing Control Algorithms, Strategies and Systems</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Building Simulation ’07</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">controls</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">development system</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">hardware-in-the-loop</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">testing</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2007/p748_final.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bejing, China</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The paper describes the design of a Building Controls Virtual Test Bed (BCVTB), a simulation environment for the development of control algorithms and strategies for the major energy systems in buildings, HVAC, lighting, active facades and on-site generation. The BCVTB is based on the whole building energy simulation program EnergyPlus and includes both the pure simulation and the hardware-in-the-loop methods of implementing the controls. For convenience and scalability, the design of the hardware-in-the-loop interface for supervisory controls uses BACnet rather than the analog interface used for local loop control. The paper concludes with a case study of the use of a prototype implementation of the BCVTB to precommission the building control system for the naturally-ventilated San Francisco Federal Building. A number of problems were found with the control program, demonstrating the value of the precommissioning and the effectiveness of the technique.&lt;/p&gt;
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