Paper Info
Title
Signal Temporal Logic Control for Residential HVAC Systems to Accommodate High Solar PV Penetration
Abstract
This paper proposes a new signal temporal logic (STL) control for ON/OFF residential buildings' Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. STL is used to control indoor temperatures while consuming most of the generated solar photovoltaic (PV) power locally to minimize its impact on the grid and reduce the need for large energy storage devices. In contrast to most, if not all, control mechanisms such as the traditional model predictive control (MPC), STL control allows for including temporal constraints in the control formulation to further relax indoor temperatures' constraints and allow them to exceed the comfort band limits for a prespecified (short) period of time. This relaxation allows to consume an additional PV power by the HVAC systems, which prevents such an unwanted intermittent power from affecting the grid. We formulate the MPC-based STL control mechanism to implement the objective. Simulation results show that the PV tracking performance has been improved while employing the proposed STL controller.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ISGT45199.2020.9087722
2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Distributed energy resources,solar photovoltaic,signal temporal logic,model predictive control,HVAC systems
Conference
2167-9665
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3104-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tumin Wu100.34
Mohammed M. Olama25312.03
Seddik M. Djouadi321642.08
Jin Dong4246.94
Yaosuo Xue5143.76
Teja P. Kuruganti633.30