This paper presents a model-based supervisory control strategy for online control of building central cooling water systems to enhance their energy efficiency. Simplified chiller and cooling tower models are developed and used to predict the system energy performance, environment quality as well as the system response to the changes of control settings. A novel and simple optimization technique...

based on the problems caused by today conventional vehicles, much attention has been put on the fuel cell vehicles researches. however, using a fuel cell system is not adequate alone in transportation applications, because the load power profile includes transient that is not compatible with the fuel cell dynamic. to resolve this problem, hybridization of the fuel cell and energy storage device...

An observational study of solving discrete-event supervisory control problems is described. Five graduate students with knowledge of discrete-event system control were asked to think aloud while solving two supervisory control problems. The problem-solving sessions were recorded using audio and video equipment, and subsequently analysed using protocol analysis. Patterns and strategies in solvin...

We have discussed technical issues regarding supervised world perception modeling and task planning of cooperative mobile robots performing tactical tasks in unstructured environment. We have introduced a hierarchy Supervisory Controller for robust cooperative task deployment of heterogeneous semiautonomous robotic vehicles. Primarily, we have described functional and modular architecture of th...