How good are learning-based control vs model-based control for load shifting? Investigations on a single zone building energy system

Y Fu, S Xu, Q Zhu, Z O'Neill, V Adetola - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Both model predictive control (MPC) and deep reinforcement learning control (DRL) have
been presented as a way to approximate the true optimality of a dynamic programming …

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 …

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 …

Development of a Bias Compensating Q-Learning Controller for a Multi-Zone HVAC Facility

SAA Rizvi, AJ Pertzborn, Z Lin - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the development of a bias compensating reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm
that optimizes thermal comfort (by minimizing tracking error) and control utilization (by …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison Study Of High-performance Rule-based HVAC Control With Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Control In A Multi-zone VAV System

X Lu, Y Fu, S Xu, Q Zhu, Z O'Neill, Z Yang - 2022 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
The design, commissioning, and retrofit of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
control systems are crucially important for energy efficiency but often neglected. Generally …

Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data in Cyber-Physical System

S Xu - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Machine learning is seeping into every fabric in various practical domains such as
autonomous driving, wearable computing, and smart buildings. However, in the actual …