This document describes the procedure to interface the building temperature control experiment to the DS1104 dSPACE data acquisition card. It also provides one simple example of distributed control system that could be implemented. 1 The Model building The building temperature control experiment is a two floor model building with temperature sensors and heaters in each room that simulates diver...

The use of an integrated design process is encouraged or required by a number of green building certifications, but many design and construction professionals have very limited knowledge about how to practice integrated design. This paper compares the integrated design process as practiced on one design project in mid-sized urban center in the Midwestern United States to the process outlined in...

We study the construction of programable integrated circuits with help disordered Chern insulators. Specifically, schemes for low dissipation logic devices and connecting wires are proposed. use external-gate-induced step voltage to construct spatially adjustable channels, where these channels take place conventional wires. Our numerical calculation manifests that external gates can be adopted ...

Many people associate Building with Nature its flagship project, the Sand Motor. This mega-nourishment redefined role of natural processes in civil engineering projects, demonstrating that instead ‘do no harm’ as highest possible supporting goal coastal infrastructure, design could incorporate to attain societal and ecological goals. As such, Motor represents a key example integrated infrastruc...

Inductive Logic Programming (ilp) methods have proven to succesfully acquire knowledge in very different learning paradigms, such as supervised and unsupervised learning or relational reinforcement learning. However, very little has been done on General Problem Solving (gps). One of the ilp-based approaches applied to gps is hamlet. This method is able to learn control rules (heuristics) for a ...