Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management

Z Nagy, G Henze, S Dey, J Arroyo, L Helsen… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Systematic review on deep reinforcement learning-based energy management for different building types

A Shaqour, A Hagishima - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Owing to the high energy demand of buildings, which accounted for 36% of the global share
in 2020, they are one of the core targets for energy-efficiency research and regulations …

A review of reinforcement learning applications to control of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems

S Sierla, H Ihasalo, V Vyatkin - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Reinforcement learning has emerged as a potentially disruptive technology for control and
optimization of HVAC systems. A reinforcement learning agent takes actions, which can be …

Towards self-learning control of HVAC systems with the consideration of dynamic occupancy patterns: Application of model-free deep reinforcement learning

M Esrafilian-Najafabadi, F Haghighat - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
This study proposes a self-learning control system that aims to learn occupancy profiles,
building energy consumption patterns, and lag-time of the heating, ventilation, and air …

Energy-efficient control of indoor PM2. 5 and thermal comfort in a real room using deep reinforcement learning

Y An, C Chen - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract To reduce indoor PM 2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than
2.5 μm) pollution and maintain thermal comfort with relatively low energy consumption, this …

Trade-off decisions in a novel deep reinforcement learning for energy savings in HVAC systems

SM Dawood, A Hatami, RZ Homod - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MB-RL) techniques to control
the indoor air temperature, and CO2 concentration level, and minimize the energy …

Development and evaluation of data-driven controls for residential smart thermostats

B Huchuk, S Sanner, W O'Brien - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of smart thermostats with real-time sensing raises the question of how to
preemptively control heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to minimize …

[HTML][HTML] Using Pearson correlation coefficient as a performance indicator in the compensation algorithm of asynchronous temperature-humidity sensor pair

TP Teng, WJ Chen - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based control algorithms for heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC) equipment have been gradually applied to improve building energy …

Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous water heater control

K Amasyali, J Munk, K Kurte, T Kuruganti, H Zandi - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Electric water heaters represent 14% of the electricity consumption in residential buildings.
An average household in the United States (US) spends about USD 400–600 (0.45¢/L …

Energy-efficient control of thermal comfort in multi-zone residential HVAC via reinforcement learning

ZK Ding, QM Fu, JP Chen, HJ Wu, Y Lu… - Connection Science, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Energy efficient control of thermal comfort has been already an important part of residential
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. However, the optimisation of …