Activities

Notice to all members

This TC continues to support the IEEE CASE 2020 in organizing special sessions on smart buildings. Members of this TC and researchers in this field are encouraged to contribute to the special sessions that are currently organized. A list of such special sessions may be found at

https://www.imse.hku.hk/case2020/Accepted%20Special%20Sessions.html

In particular, special sessions on "Simulation Analytics for Cyber Physical Systems" (code: at681) and "AI enabled Discrete Event Dynamic Systems" (code: 11i61) are organized by this TC. Please use the session code during the submission.

 

Overview

With the strong support from IEEE RAS, smart building  is becoming part of the normal track of the CASE conferences since 2015 and has been leveraged to the key words system with RAS journal submission: T-ASE and RAL. Active normal submission (10 papers with key words building automation accepted in 2016 and most are from regular sessions).

Activity in 2020

Several special sessions related to smart buildings are organized in various conferences to be held in this year. Members of this TC, and researchers in this field are encouraged to make contributions to these sessions. 

  • IEEE CASE 2020 (https://www.imse.hku.hk/case2020/), Hong Kong, China, Aug. 20-24, 2020. The submission deadline for Regular/Special session is due by Apr. 5, 2020. The Presentation Only / Work-in-Progress submission is due by May 30, 2020.
  • A special session on "Control and Optimization for Cyber Physical Systems" is organized in the 2020 Chinese Control Conference (http://conf.neu.edu.cn/ccc2020/English/Home.html), Shenyang, China, Jul. 27-29, 2020. Smart buildings is an important component for the control and optimization of CPS. 
  • The seventh (7th) edition in the series of the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CODIT) (https://codit2020.com/), Prague, Czech Republic, Jun. 29 - Jul. 2, 2020. 

 

Activity in 2016

Technical report in 2016 International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems an Control in Beijing, China, on May 27, 2016

Activity in 2015

One half-day workshop and special sessions (we have 30+ papers accepted on smart buildings) organized by IEEE RAS SBTC in CASE 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden, during  August 24-28, 2015

Technical report in the 2015 Tsinghua-Leuven Bilateral Workshop in Beijing, China, on May 21, 2015

Technical report in the 5th International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems an Control in Beijing, China, on May 8, 2015.


A whole track on smart buildings in CASE 2014

 After our successful organization of the special session son smart buildings in CASE 2013, our members have been thinking about a reunion at CASE 2014. This time, as suggested by the many active members of our TC, we reach out to simulation-based optimization researchers, who contributed a lot of algorithms that have potentially big impact in smart buildings. We have successfully collected 28 submissions for this track of sessions. We have a very good chance to have a whole track on smart buildings in CASE 2014.

Two-and-a-half day track on smart buildings in CASE 2013

It is the purpose of this TC to promote and unify the existing research effort on smart buildings in the RAS community. After the establishment of this TC in May 2012, we have been focusing on organizing invited/special sessions in CASE. Our first attempt in 2013 received enthusiastic support from the members in the RAS community. This directly allowed us to organize a two-and-a-half-day track on smart buildings in the 9thIEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, which is held in Madison, Wisconsin, during August 17-20, 2013.

Organizing public lectures on smart buildings by TC members

We organize an invited public talk on May 28, 2013 in Beijing that was given Prof. Peter Luh to promote the general interests on smart buildings. In this talk, three selected topics have been highlighted, including 1) integrated building energy management, 2) HVAC fault detection, and 3) crowd guidance in building emergencies. For each topic, problem importance, challenges in problem formulation and solution methodology as well as the novel ideas are stressed. In the end of the talk, a brief promotion of this TC is introduced. Other members of this TC have also been invited to give talks on smart buildings in various other occasions.

Monthly newsletter service to the TC members

Since the end of 2013, we send out the monthly newsletter to our TC members. In the newsletter, we list the recent publications in the field, not just from IEEE RAS publications, but also from other related journals. We also announce various other events in the fields, and encourage the TC members to contribute their own posts.

RAS-Funded project on creation of education material

 This TC has received the RAS-funded project on creation of education materials. The project is on case study of modeling and control in energy-efficient buildings. In this project, we focus on one of the key problems in entering the field of smart buildings, namely the simulation platforms. There are various commercial or free software in the public domain. But most of these software require substantial understanding of the building, i.e., the domain knowledge. In this project, we use several case studies to show how these software can be used to model the real buildings, and to help us understand the performance of these buildings. The code for the simulation will also be provided. This project is still undergoing. The information can be found in: http://www.cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/sbtc/demo/index.html.

Technical report

This TC also helped the RAS to write a technical report to summarize the key progress in this field in recent years.

TC spotlight

 There will be a TC spotlight for this TC in the upcoming IEEE RAS Magazine. In that article, we introduce some recent activities of the TC and keep on promoting the research in the field.