Co-simulation Solutions using AA4MM-FMI applied to Smart Space Heating Models

Multi-modeling and co-simulation are one of the solutions for dealing with complex systems. In this paper, we propose to apply the AA4MM framework to the co-simulation of a smart space heating “complex” environment with 2 objectives. Our first contribution is the development of AA4MM- FMI (Agent and Artifact for Multiple Models coordination for FMI). AA4MM is a modeling and simulation framework that can be used to implement the “master” in a multiple FMU (Functional Mock-up Unit) co-simulation of the FMI (Functional Mock-up Interface) standard with a fully decentralized view and intrinsic coordination. Our second contribution is to apply and evaluate this solution by creating a hierarchy of smart space models that are exploiting house geometry information. Each individual room is represented as an independent FMU taking inputs of the room’s geo- metric information (surface area, volume, insulation, etc.), target temperature, and neighboring rooms. The neighbor- ing rooms are connected to each other using the AA4MM- FMI framework. This project aims to couple an electrical heating-based simulation with networking event-based simulations to gain intuition for how house geometry affects efficient heating and network connectivity. Using this smart space house heating problem, we are able to test AA4MM- FMI (our novel “master”) for FMI and multi-simulation.