In: Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'99), 12-15 October 1999, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 4, pages 618-622. 1999.
Abstract: Air conditioning systems of vehicles or cars used to do only cooling or heating inside vehicles. Recently it has become desirable to control air inside a vehicle to maximize the comfort of people in a vehicle under all vehicle's environmental conditions. However, it is difficult to maintain an optimum comfort level under thermal disturbances such as thermal effects from sunlight and from opening and closing vehicle doors. Also, it is desirable to control air by considering the different comfort temperatures for different body parts of a passenger. This paper proposes a fuzzy-timing Petri net method for distributed temperature control to achieve optimum air temperature inside a car, considering the comfort of each passenger.
Keywords: fuzzy timing Petri nets, temperature control.