[HTML][HTML] Interpretable machine learning for building energy management: A state-of-the-art review

Z Chen, F Xiao, F Guo, J Yan - Advances in Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning has been widely adopted for improving building energy efficiency
and flexibility in the past decade owing to the ever-increasing availability of massive building …

A review on hybrid physics and data-driven modeling methods applied in air source heat pump systems for energy efficiency improvement

Y Guo, N Wang, S Shao, C Huang, Z Zhang, X Li… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purely data-driven modeling methods exhibit inherent “black box” characteristics when
applied to the air source heat pump (ASHP) systems for energy efficiency improvement …

Building thermal modeling and model predictive control with physically consistent deep learning for decarbonization and energy optimization

T Xiao, F You - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Being a primary contributor to global energy consumption and energy-related carbon
emissions, the building and building construction sectors are a crucial player in the …

Physics informed neural networks for control oriented thermal modeling of buildings

G Gokhale, B Claessens, C Develder - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Buildings constitute more than 40% of total primary energy consumption worldwide and are
bound to play an important role in the energy transition process. To unlock their potential, we …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Physics-constrained cooperative learning-based reference models for smart management of chillers considering extrapolation scenarios

X Liang, X Zhu, S Chen, X Jin, F Xiao, Z Du - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Smart management of building energy devices, including their optimal control and fault
detection technology, is of great significance to building energy conservation. The core of …

Sharing is caring: An extensive analysis of parameter-based transfer learning for the prediction of building thermal dynamics

G Pinto, R Messina, H Li, T Hong, MS Piscitelli… - Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years deep neural networks have been proposed as a lightweight data-driven
model to capture high-dimensional, nonlinear physical processes to predict building thermal …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental data-driven model predictive control of a hospital HVAC system during regular use

ET Maddalena, SA Mueller, RM dos Santos… - Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein we report a multi-zone, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control case
study of an industrial plant responsible for cooling a hospital surgery center. The adopted …

[HTML][HTML] Towards scalable physically consistent neural networks: An application to data-driven multi-zone thermal building models

L Di Natale, B Svetozarevic, P Heer, CN Jones - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
With more and more data being collected, data-driven modeling methods have been gaining
in popularity in recent years. While physically sound, classical gray-box models are often …