Accelerate online reinforcement learning for building HVAC control with heterogeneous expert guidances

S Xu, Y Fu, Y Wang, Z Yang, Z O'Neill, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for nearly half of
building energy consumption and 20% of total energy consumption in the US. Their …

Less is more: Simplified state-action space for deep reinforcement learning based HVAC control

S Murugesan, Z Jiang, MJ Risbeck, J Amores… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
How do we optimize heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for energy
cost and occupant comfort? How do we accomplish this in an automated fashion that adapts …

One for many: Transfer learning for building hvac control

S Xu, Y Wang, Y Wang, Z O'Neill, Q Zhu - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The design of building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is critically
important, as it accounts for around half of building energy consumption and directly affects …

Evaluating the adaptability of reinforcement learning based HVAC control for residential houses

K Kurte, J Munk, O Kotevska, K Amasyali, R Smith… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intelligent Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control using deep
reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its ability to …

Marco-multi-agent reinforcement learning based control of building hvac systems

S Nagarathinam, V Menon, A Vasan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Optimal control of building heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment has
typically been based on rules and model-based predictive control (MPC). Challenges in …

Multi-zone hvac control with model-based deep reinforcement learning

X Ding, A Cerpa, W Du - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The application of reinforcement learning in controlling Heating, Ventilation, and Air
Conditioning (HVAC) systems has been extensively researched. Existing studies primarily …

Safe hvac control via batch reinforcement learning

HY Liu, B Balaji, S Gao, R Gupta… - 2022 ACM/IEEE 13th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Buildings account for 30% of energy use worldwide, and approxi-mately half of it is ascribed
to HVAC systems. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has improved upon traditional control …

Mb2c: Model-based deep reinforcement learning for multi-zone building control

X Ding, W Du, AE Cerpa - Proceedings of the 7th ACM international …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning has been widely studied for controlling Heating, Ventilation, and Air
conditioning (HVAC) systems. Most of the existing works are focused on Model-Free …

Gnu-rl: A precocial reinforcement learning solution for building hvac control using a differentiable mpc policy

B Chen, Z Cai, M Bergés - Proceedings of the 6th ACM international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) was first demonstrated to be a feasible approach to controlling
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems more than a decade ago …

Deep reinforcement learning with online data augmentation to improve sample efficiency for intelligent HVAC control

K Kurte, K Amasyali, J Munk, H Zandi - Proceedings of the 9th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has started showing success in real-world applications
such as building energy optimization. Much of the research in this space utilized simulated …