Review on occupant-centric thermal comfort sensing, predicting, and controlling

J Xie, H Li, C Li, J Zhang, M Luo - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Ensuring occupants' thermal comfort and work performance is one of the primary objectives
for building environment conditioning systems. In recent years, there emerged many …

Data-driven thermal comfort model via support vector machine algorithms: Insights from ASHRAE RP-884 database

X Zhou, L Xu, J Zhang, B Niu, M Luo, G Zhou… - Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many models can predict building occupants' thermal comfort, but their accuracies were not
always perfect due to the limited self-learning and self-correction capability when varying the …

Data-driven simulation of a thermal comfort-based temperature set-point control with ASHRAE RP884

S Lu, W Wang, C Lin, EC Hameen - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In the course of thermal comfort theory, researchers have been investigating both static
thermal comfort and adaptive thermal comfort. Compared to static thermal comfort metrics …

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the prediction of thermal comfort in buildings: Energy implications of AI-based thermal comfort controls

J Ngarambe, GY Yun, M Santamouris - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Buildings consume about 40% of globally-produced energy. A notable amount of this energy
is used to provide sufficient comfort levels to the building occupants. Moreover, given recent …

A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings

N Somu, A Sriram, A Kowli, K Ramamritham - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the thermal condition of living spaces affects the occupants' productivity and their
quality of life, it is important to design effective heating, ventilation and air conditioning …

A feedforward neural network based indoor-climate control framework for thermal comfort and energy saving in buildings

T Chaudhuri, YC Soh, H Li, L Xie - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Building air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) systems are responsible for
significant energy consumption and yet, dissatisfaction with the thermal environment is …

Performance based thermal comfort control (PTCC) using deep reinforcement learning for space cooling

YR Yoon, HJ Moon - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
With the recent increase in energy consumption in buildings, energy-saving strategies in
buildings have become a priority in the energy policies of many countries. Therefore, many …

Data-driven personal thermal comfort prediction: A literature review

Y Feng, S Liu, J Wang, J Yang, YL Jao… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Personal thermal comfort prediction modeling has become a trending topic in efforts to
improve individual indoor comfort, a notion that is closely related to the design and …

Application of machine learning in thermal comfort studies: A review of methods, performance and challenges

ZQ Fard, ZS Zomorodian, SS Korsavi - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides a systematic review on the application of Machine Learning (ML) in
thermal comfort studies to highlight the latest methods and findings and provide an agenda …

DeepComfort: Energy-efficient thermal comfort control in buildings via reinforcement learning

G Gao, J Li, Y Wen - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) are extremely energy consuming,
accounting for 40% of total building energy consumption. It is crucial to design some energy …