Title
Switching predictive controller for building optimal thermal comfort
Abstract
To make buildings more energy efficient, building owners or managers are looking for ways to reduce the energy consumption of equipment such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). In this context, this paper deals with the synthesis and design of switching predictive HVAC controllers exploiting a data-driven output feedback controller for a class of complex nonlinear systems. The system is approximated by a set of linear polynomial models, which is reduced to an auto regressive with exogenous terms model. Data from the internet of things devices are used to feed the controller. It will also be used for partitioning the output space into different operating regions and interpolation regions. Based on this partition, a novel piecewise optimal predictive controller (pw-OPC) with affine terms via optimal output feedback is designed. We give some conditions to verify the feasibility of the technique and the stabilizability of this class of controller. We then check its effectiveness experimentally by applying it to control the heating systems of a student residence. We will compare it with other existing controllers such as an optimal output-feedback controller and an optimal predictive controller to determine its performance. The results prove that the pw-OPC gives good results in terms of thermal comfort and energy savings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837246
2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
interpolation regions,novel piecewise optimal predictive controller,pw-OPC,affine terms,optimal output feedback,heating systems,optimal output-feedback controller,energy savings,optimal thermal comfort,buildings more energy efficient,ventilation,air conditioning,predictive HVAC controllers,data-driven output feedback controller,complex nonlinear systems,linear polynomial models,auto regressive,exogenous terms model,output space,different operating regions
Conference
2325-369X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-0674-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Rajaoarisoa100.34
M-H Benzaama200.34
K-N M'Sirdi300.34
L. Clavier400.34
M. Sayed-Mouchaweh500.34