Systematic review on deep reinforcement learning-based energy management for different building types

A Shaqour, A Hagishima - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Owing to the high energy demand of buildings, which accounted for 36% of the global share
in 2020, they are one of the core targets for energy-efficiency research and regulations …

Electric vehicle charging modes, technologies and applications of smart charging

A Ahmad, M Khalid, Z Ullah, N Ahmad, M Aljaidi… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rise of the intelligent, local charging facilitation and environmentally friendly aspects of
electric vehicles (EVs) has grabbed the attention of many end-users. However, there are still …

[HTML][HTML] Physically consistent neural networks for building thermal modeling: theory and analysis

L Di Natale, B Svetozarevic, P Heer, CN Jones - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their high energy intensity, buildings play a major role in the current worldwide
energy transition. Building models are ubiquitous since they are needed at each stage of the …

Dynamics analysis of a novel hybrid deep clustering for unsupervised learning by reinforcement of multi-agent to energy saving in intelligent buildings

RZ Homod, H Togun, AK Hussein, FN Al-Mousawi… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems energy demand can be
reduced by manipulating indoor conditions within the comfort range, which relates to control …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning dealing with hybrid action spaces: A case study for off-grid oriented renewable building energy system

Y Gao, Y Matsunami, S Miyata, Y Akashi - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With the application of renewable energy in building energy systems (BES), an increasing
number of power grids require building energy systems coupled to realize off-grid operation …

[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 …

Dyna-PINN: Physics-informed deep dyna-q reinforcement learning for intelligent control of building heating system in low-diversity training data regimes

MH Saeed, H Kazmi, G Deconinck - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper introduces Dyna-PINN, a novel physics-informed Deep Dyna-Q (DDQ)
reinforcement learning (RL) approach, designed to address the data-intensive training …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven adaptive building thermal controller tuning with constraints: A primal–dual contextual Bayesian optimization approach

W Xu, B Svetozarevic, L Di Natale, P Heer, CN Jones - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the problem of tuning the parameters of a room temperature controller to minimize
its energy consumption, subject to the constraint that the daily cumulative thermal discomfort …

Towards more accurate and explainable supervised learning-based prediction of deliverability for underground natural gas storage

A Ali, K Aliyuda, N Elmitwally, AM Bello - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous subsurface factors, including geology and fluid properties, can affect the
connectivity of the storage spaces in depleted reservoirs; hence, fluid flow simulations …