State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field

Y Yao, DK Shekhar - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Building systems are subject of dynamic system that have a general feature of non-linearity
and in turn, present us with different challenges for its optimized control of energy-saving …

[HTML][HTML] A review of reinforcement learning for controlling building energy systems from a computer science perspective

D Weinberg, Q Wang, TO Timoudas… - Sustainable cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy efficient control of energy systems in buildings is a widely recognized challenge due
to the use of low temperature heating, renewable electricity sources, and the incorporation of …

Towards optimal HVAC control in non-stationary building environments combining active change detection and deep reinforcement learning

X Deng, Y Zhang, H Qi - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy consumption for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) has increased
significantly and accounted for a large proportion of building energy growth. Advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evaluation of model-free reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous HVAC control

M Biemann, F Scheller, X Liu, L Huang - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Controlling heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is crucial to improving
demand-side energy efficiency. At the same time, the thermodynamics of buildings and …

Reinforcement learning of occupant behavior model for cross-building transfer learning to various HVAC control systems

Z Deng, Q Chen - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior plays an important role in the evaluation of building performance.
However, many contextual factors, such as occupancy, mechanical system and interior …

Building energy management with reinforcement learning and model predictive control: A survey

H Zhang, S Seal, D Wu, F Bouffard, B Boulet - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building energy management has been recognized as of significant importance on
improving the overall system efficiency and reducing the greenhouse gas emission …

Benchmarking high performance HVAC Rule-Based controls with advanced intelligent Controllers: A case study in a Multi-Zone system in Modelica

X Lu, Y Fu, Z O'Neill - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The design, commissioning, and retrofit of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
control systems are crucially important for energy efficiency. However, designers and control …

Deepapp: a deep reinforcement learning framework for mobile application usage prediction

Z Shen, K Yang, W Du, X Zhao, J Zou - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper aims to predict the apps a user will open on her mobile device next. Such an
information is essential for many smartphone operations, eg, app pre-loading and content …

Sinergym: a building simulation and control framework for training reinforcement learning agents

J Jiménez-Raboso, A Campoy-Nieves… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We introduce Sinergym, an open-source building simulation and control framework for
training reinforcement learning agents. The proposed framework is compatible with …

Deep reinforcement learning towards real-world dynamic thermal management of data centers

Q Zhang, W Zeng, Q Lin, CB Chng, CK Chui, PS Lee - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Reinforcement Learning has been increasingly researched for Dynamic
Thermal Management in Data Centers. However, existing works typically evaluate the …