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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.
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Abras, S., Ploix, S., Pesty, S., Jacomino, M. (2008). A Multi-agent Home Automation System for Power Management. In: Cetto, J.A., Ferrier, JL., Costa dias Pereira, J., Filipe, J. (eds) Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics. Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79142-3_6
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