Patent ID: 8812166
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G05B,G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for supplying a resource to an entity from a plurality of resource actuators, said method comprising: developing, by a processor, a plurality of physics-based models pertaining to the resource actuators and the entity, wherein the entity has a resource demand; receiving conditions detected at the entity; performing, by the processor, feedback control to generate an output to modify a resource demand threshold of the entity at a first interval of time based upon a difference between a condition threshold and the detected conditions; performing, by the processor, feed forward control to generate an output to minimize the resource demand threshold of the entity at a second interval of time that is longer than the first interval of time based upon the detected conditions and the plurality of physics-based models; formulating, by the processor, a constraint optimization problem having an objective function and at least one constraint using the plurality of physics-based models, wherein the objective function computes at least a proportional quantity of a total power consumption level of the plurality of resource actuators and the at least one constraint comprises a minimum resource demand of the entity; solving the constraint optimization problem based on the feedback control output and the feed forward control output, wherein the solution provides resource actuator setting values to minimize a power consumed by the plurality of resource actuators; and setting, by the processor, the plurality of resource actuators to the resource actuator setting values.