WP1.2 Coordination Meeting April 21, 2020 - ibpsa/project1 GitHub Wiki
Meeting Report WP1.2 ‘Modelica library for MPC’
1. MEETING SUBJECT, DATE
Subject: WP1.2
Date: 21-04-2020
Location: Skype for Business
Minutes taken by: Lieve Helsen (KU Leuven)
2. PARTICIPANTS
Company/Organisation - Participant
KU Leuven - Lieve Helsen (WP Leader)
KU Leuven - Iago Cupeiro
KU Leuven - Javier Arroyo
LBNL - David Blum
LBNL - Michael Wetter
SINTEF - Harald Taxt Walnum
PNNL - Sen Huang
SDU - Toa yang
SDU - Konstantin
Oak Ridge national Lab – ORNL (US) - Yeonjin Bae
3. AGENDA and REPORT
3.1. Approval/Modification Agenda
Approved
3.2. Status & further discussion where needed
a. Emulators:
4 models selected to start MPC testing
i. BESTEST Air (LBNL/KU Leuven):
In pull request (Dave).
Dave remarks that he has been cleaning up unit tests and is providing a solution to specify the dependency libraries of each test case. Additionally there is development on starting simulations with a warm up period at time different from zero. To be reviewed by Javier.
ii. BESTEST Hydronic (KU Leuven /LBNL):
In pull request (Filip).
Unit testing: similar status as BESTEST Air.
iii. 8-Zone Residential Hydronic (Engie/SDU):
In pull request, update needed for zone identifiers (Javier).
iv. Multi-Zone Office Hybrid Simple (KU Leuven/Engie):
Managed to compile the model with JModelica, still some issues in BOPTEST (action Iago/Javier). Check with Sen. Simulation time in FMU could be much longer than in Dymola. Changing solver might help.
However further progress has been made in other models too!
v. Single-Zone Commercial Building (SDU/LBNL):
Dave gave feedback and this is processed by Tao.
vi. Multi-Zone Air-Based Prototype Complex (PNNL/KU Leuven):
Iago gave feedback, occupancy profile is missing. To be processed by Sen.
vii. Flexible Research Platform (ORNL/SDU):
Yeonjin started with the building envelope model for the 10 zones office with VAV system. Konstantin volunteers as a Reviewer. Dave sends the checklist.
Emulators need to be put on BOP-TEST repository in the directory Testcases
Emulators overview:
b. KPIs - scenarios
Choice between TMYx (1946-2018) and TMY3 (1973-2005) weather files. We have a data reader for TMY3 in IBPSA. Both will be compared in the representative days/weeks selection (action PNNL). Sen will give an update next meeting.
c. BOPTEST:
i. Test case peer review document:
Unit test for the functionality of the zone name designation to the measurement read block has already been merged with the BOPTEST master (Dave/Javier).
ii. Qi Li (no longer at ORNL, moved to Siemens)
He sent a paper to Dave on the generation of new weather files based on historical data, to be used for grey and black box model identification (training data that differ from test data). No further progress.
iii. Dave reports from the Technical Advisory Group meeting for US part:
Good participation (13 attendees), Dave presented the test case construction and emulators, feedback was positive: emulators cover a wide range. Comments:
1. Add faults to the system and see how controllers respond.
2. Push towards the latest efforst on standardization of data (I/O) tags ... the process of discovering data points easier, like Project Haystack, Brick Schema, that are initiatives from the ASHRAE Standard 223P. Could BOPTEST interface with these standardization efforts?
3. Important to include documentation, e.g. control sequences included in emulators, incl. HVAC schematics and diagrams.
d. MPC Library (IbpsaMpc):
i. Unit testing framework (Dave):
No update.
e. Dissemination:
Broaden the user space (e.g. to Machine Learning people). How to reach these people? Jan: make a first suggestion. Cfr OpenAIGym, no update.