Authors:
Shadi Abras
1
;
Stéphane Ploix
2
;
Sylvie Pesty
1
and
Mireille Jacomino
2
Affiliations:
1
Laboratoire Leibniz-Institut IMAG, France
;
2
Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, France
Keyword(s):
Home Automation System, Multi-Agent Systems, Automatic Control, Negotiation and Cooperation, Power Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Software Agents for Intelligent Control Systems
Abstract:
This paper presents the principles of a Home Automation system dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to user comfort and cost criteria. The system relies on a multi-agent paradigm. Each agent is embedded into a power resource or an equipment, which may be an environment (thermal-air, thermal-water, ventilation, luminous) or a service (washing, cooking), and cooperates and coordinates its action with others in order to find acceptable near-optimal solution. The control algorithm is decomposed into two complementary mechanisms: an emergency mechanism, which protects from constraint violations, and an anticipation mechanism, which computes the best future set-points according to predicted consumptions and productions and to user criteria. The paper details a negotiation protocol used by the both mechanisms and presents some preliminary simulation results.