Model Identification with Application to Building Control and Fault Detection by - Peter Ross Armstrong B.S. Engineering Design and Economic Evaluation University of Colorado (1974) M.S. Mechanical Engineering Colorado State University (1980) Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture: Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MASSACHUSETTS INS7MTUT OF TECHNOLOGY September 2004 OCT 2 0 2004 0 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved LIBRARIES ROTCH1) Signature of Author...,-, ....... .................... Department *of*Architecture June 1, 2004 C ertified by ......... .... ..... ........................................... Leslie K. Norford Professor of Building Technology, Department of Architecture Thesis Supervisor C ertified by.... ...................................... Steven B. Leeb Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Thesis Supervisor A ccepted by..... ....................................... Stanford Anderson Chairman, Committee on Graduate Students Head, Department of Architecture