L Chen, F Meng, Y Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel learning-based control strategy, named MBRL-MC, for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system by combining model-based deep …
Advanced control strategies are central components of smart buildings. For model-based control algorithms, the quality of the model that represents building systems and dynamics is …
A Alferidi, M Alsolami, B Lami, SB Slama - Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indoor Household Environment (IHE) has caught the attention of industry and academia due to the substantial amount of time that families spend indoors. Domestic air …
Both model predictive control (MPC) and deep reinforcement learning control (DRL) have been presented as a way to approximate the true optimality of a dynamic programming …
Whole building energy model (BEM) is a physics-based modeling method for building energy simulation. It has been widely used in the building industry for code compliance …
Z Li, Z Sun, Q Meng, Y Wang, Y Li - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Demand response (DR) is an effective means to reduce peak loads and enhance grid stability. Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems have potential energy …
As buildings account for approximately 40% of global energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, their role in decarbonizing the power grid is crucial. The …
W Zhang, Y Wen, KJ Tseng, G Jin - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal comfort is a key consideration in smart buildings and a number of comfort models are available nowadays to evaluate the comfort level of occupants. However, the models are …
Behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), including building solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and electric battery storage, are increasingly being considered as solutions …