Adaptive Comfort: Passive Design for Active Occupants

Climate and Comfort-Passive Design Strategies for Lebanon

Illuminating Adaptive Comfort: Dynamic Lighting for the Active Occupant

This paper makes the assertion that established concepts from thermal comfort research might be used to develop an adaptive comfort model for lighting. By gathering data from a live office environment, we demonstrate the necessity of dynamically-adapted lighting levels in order to achieve both comfort and energy savings. We detail the background and the experimental setup that is used to extrac...

Modular Adaptive Design for Active Suspensions

Active suspension designs rely on knowledge of system parameters such as vehicle mass to achieve their objectives of improved passenger comfort and road handling. Recently, we proposed a novel nonlinear design methodology for active suspensions, which uses a nonlinear control objective to explicitly incorporate rattlespace travel limits and prevent the suspension from hitting them. We have also...

Optimal integrated passive/active design of the suspension system using iteration on the Lyapunov equations

In this paper, an iterative technique is proposed to solve linear integrated active/passive design problems. The optimality of active and passive parts leads to the nonlinear algebraic Riccati equation due to the active parameters and some associated additional Lyapunov equations due to the passive parameters. Rather than the solution of the nonlinear algebraic Riccati equation, it is proposed ...

Integral approach for adaptable indoor comfort; Building and occupants follow the sun

The focus on the needs and drives for adaptation of the building automatically leads to changing needs and demands of the occupants of the building. Building should really take care of its occupants and show adaptable behaviour and reaction to the changing outdoor environment during the day. Design for adaptability should start with the occupants needs for comfort and indoor air quality. These ...