Post Bachelor
The work will entail:
NIST has several projects related to digital twins in the built environment. These projects are developing
the infrastructure needed to ease the development and deployment of digital twins and inform existing
and future standards. The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) is being used in these efforts. A
Modelica model was developed for the IBAL, but this model needs to be improved and updated so that
it can be used to demonstrate the full physical-digital twin workflow. Guideline 36 controllers need to be
added to the model, and the parameters that will be tuned to align the digital twin with the physical
twin need to be identified. Some of these parameters are not tunable when the model is converted to
an FMU for co-simulation, so some models will need to be modified or developed to make those
parameters available after the FMU has been compiled.
Modelica Modeling in Support of a Building Digital Twin
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Experience with Modelica modeling using the Buildings library.
- Preferred experience with Modelica modeling in OpenModelica.
- Preferred experience with FMUs and co-simulation in Python.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Reviewing and understanding the existing models.
- Identifying the parameters that need to be tuned.
- Modifying and developing new models as needed.
- Adding Guideline 36 controllers to the model.
- Presenting results at internal meetings, and occasional meetings with external stakeholders.
- Ensuring that results, protocols, software, and documentation have been archived or otherwise
transmitted to the larger organization.