A New Co-simulation Architecture for Mixing Dynamic Building Simulation and Agent Oriented Approach for Users Behaviour Modelling

This paper deals with an interoperability solution based on co-simulation that ensures tools collaborative working for building’s global simulation. The proposed solution couples two specialized tools from different domains and characterized by different modelling approaches in order to simulate a low energy building. A dynamic thermal envelope model in SIMULINK is coupled to a multi-agent based occupants’ behaviour model realized in BRAHMS. The co-simulation of these two tools has been established to take advantages of their specific capabilities for a detailed simulation using physical and inhabitants’ behaviour (cognitive abilities) models. This work is realized to simulate an efficient building control, taking into account the system’s complexity. A co-simulation architecture based on software component standard is also proposed. The use of this technique helps to unify programming interfaces of several BPS tools in order to facilitate and generalize co-simulation use cases.