Integration of Supervisory and Nonlinear Control for a Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning System

In this paper, we propose a supervisory controller for the discrete model of a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system and then design the nonlinear controller for the heating and cooling subsystems within. The HVAC system includes the discrete event dynamics and nonlinear continuous dynamics, both are very complex and challenging. Here we discuss the whole system and systematically design the controller and the interface between continuous and discrete controller.