Patent ID: 8103365
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an air conditioner provided with a room air sensor that senses a room air temperature, an ambient air sensor that senses an ambient air sensor that senses an ambient air temperature, a solar sensor that senses a solar radiation quantity, an air quantity switch used to set a quantity of air blowing from the air conditioner, and a temperature switch used to set a temperature of the air blowing from the air conditioner, wherein the air conditioner is controlled by referring to at least N pieces (N≧2) of mandatory input variables, and by calculating a value of a defined single output variable based on the mandatory input variables, wherein the mandatory input variables include fixed first type of input variables including the ambient air temperature from the ambient air sensor and the solar radiation quantity from the solar sensor, and remaining second type of input variables including a temperature deviation value obtained based on the temperatures of both the room air sensor and the ambient air sensor and the temperature set by using the temperature switch, the first type of input variables having M (1<M<N) pieces, the second type of input variables having (N−M) pieces, each of the first type of input variables and the second type of input variables having different types of input variables, the single output variable being the quantity of air blowing from the air conditioner in response to the air quantity switch or the temperature of the air blowing from the air conditioner in response to the temperature switch, the method comprising: separately preparing a plurality of model control patterns for defining a relation between the second type of input variables having (N−M) pieces and a value of the output variable, for determining the value of the output variable according to the mandatory input variable values, the patterns are defined on each of model coordinates in predetermined Q pieces (Q>2) on a M-dimensional input space extended by the first type of input variables; appointing coordinates in the M-dimensional input space of the first type of input variables included in N-dimensional input values as actual control coordinates, when the N-dimensional input values of the mandatory input variables are provided; defining J pieces (2<J<Q) in model coordinates as morphing coordinates, the J pieces being present in a predetermined morphing-objective space which includes actual control coordinates point in a M-dimensional input space; forming combined control patterns corresponding to the actual control coordinates point by morphing a shape of the model control patterns having J pieces and corresponding to each morphing coordinates, the morphing is performed according to weight between the morphing coordinates in the M-dimensional input space and the actual control coordinates, in the control pattern space extended by the second type of input variables and the output variable; and calculating the value of the output variable corresponding to the N-dimensional input values based on the combined control patterns; and controlling the air conditioner based on the calculated value of the output variable.