Intelligent building control systems for thermal comfort and energy-efficiency: A systematic review of artificial intelligence-assisted techniques

GH Merabet, M Essaaidi, MB Haddou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Building operations represent a significant percentage of the total primary energy consumed
in most countries due to the proliferation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning …

Deep reinforcement learning for power system applications: An overview

Z Zhang, D Zhang, RC Qiu - CSEE Journal of Power and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to increasing complexity, uncertainty and data dimensions in power systems,
conventional methods often meet bottlenecks when attempting to solve decision and control …

Deep reinforcement learning for smart home energy management

L Yu, W Xie, D Xie, Y Zou, D Zhang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate an energy cost minimization problem for a smart home in the absence of a
building thermal dynamics model with the consideration of a comfortable temperature range …

Whole building energy model for HVAC optimal control: A practical framework based on deep reinforcement learning

Z Zhang, A Chong, Y Pan, C Zhang, KP Lam - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

A review of reinforcement learning for autonomous building energy management

K Mason, S Grijalva - Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The area of building energy management has received a significant amount of interest in
recent years. This area is concerned with combining advancements in sensor technologies …

Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems

K Zhang, A Prakash, L Paul, D Blum, P Alstone… - Advances in Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hundreds of studies have investigated Model Predictive Control (MPC) for the optimal
operation of building energy systems in the past two decades. However, MPC field tests are …

Deep reinforcement learning to optimise indoor temperature control and heating energy consumption in buildings

S Brandi, MS Piscitelli, M Martellacci, A Capozzoli - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In this work, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is implemented to control the
supply water temperature setpoint to terminal units of a heating system. The experiment was …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning optimization framework for building energy system with renewable energy

R Shen, S Zhong, X Wen, Q An, R Zheng, Y Li, J Zhao - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Under the background of high global building energy consumption, meeting the ever-
growing energy consumption demand of building energy system (BES) through renewable …

Optimization strategy based on deep reinforcement learning for home energy management

Y Liu, D Zhang, HB Gooi - CSEE Journal of Power and Energy …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of a smart grid and smart home, massive amounts of data can be
made available, providing the basis for algorithm training in artificial intelligence …

A review of reinforcement learning methodologies for controlling occupant comfort in buildings

M Han, R May, X Zhang, X Wang, S Pan, D Yan… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Classical building control systems are becoming vulnerable with increasing complexities in
contemporary built environments and energy systems. Due to this, the reinforcement …