.AixLib.Controls.HVACAgentBasedControl.Agents.ConsumerAgent

Information

Overview

• This model is a consumer agent which controls a heat/cold consuming entity.
• It is equivalent to the room agent apart from the inut data.
• It is based on communication via UDP and logic implemented with the help of the StateGraph Modelica library.
• It is used together with a broker-agent and at least one producer-agent.

Concept

The consumer agent receives a requested capacity as an input. When a pre-defined sample-time has elapsed, a cooling or heating request is calculated and send to a broker agent. The broker-agent ensures that the requested heat is produced. The logic is implemented with the help of the StateGraph library. Communication is realized with the help of the DeviceDriver library and follows the language standards for multi-agent-systems set by the FIPA to the highest possible extend for Modelica models. The following figure shows the behaviour of the consumer agent. For further information please refer to the first reference.

References

• Roozbeh Sangi, Felix Bünning, Johannes Fütterer, Dirk Müller. A Platform for the Agent-based Control of HVAC Systems. Modelica Conference, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.
• FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification
• FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification
• Felix Bünning, Roozbeh Sangi, Dirk Müller. A Modelica library for agent-based control of building HVAC systems. Applied Energy, 193:52-59, 2017.

Example Results

• ExampleAgentSystem

Revisions

• December 2016, by Roozbeh Sangi:
  revised
• December 2016, by Felix Bünning: Changed some variables to Integer type in order to avoid warnings caused by using the "==" operator
• November 2016, by Felix Bünning: Updated symbol
• October 2015, by Felix Bünning: Developed and implemented