Reducing transient and steady state electricity consumption in HVAC using learning-based model-predictive control

A Aswani, N Master, J Taneja, D Culler… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are an important target for
efficiency improvements through new equipment and retrofitting because of their large …

Energy-efficient building HVAC control using hybrid system LBMPC

A Aswani, N Master, J Taneja, A Krioukov… - IFAC Proceedings …, 2012 - Elsevier
Improving the energy-efficiency of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems
has the potential to realize large economic and societal benefits. This paper concerns the …

Development and evaluation of data-driven controls for residential smart thermostats

B Huchuk, S Sanner, W O'Brien - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of smart thermostats with real-time sensing raises the question of how to
preemptively control heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to minimize …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning for whole-building HVAC control and demand response

D Azuatalam, WL Lee, F de Nijs, A Liebman - Energy and AI, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel reinforcement learning (RL) architecture for the efficient
scheduling and control of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in a …

Gnu-rl: A precocial reinforcement learning solution for building hvac control using a differentiable mpc policy

B Chen, Z Cai, M Bergés - Proceedings of the 6th ACM international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) was first demonstrated to be a feasible approach to controlling
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems more than a decade ago …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evaluation of model-free reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous HVAC control

M Biemann, F Scheller, X Liu, L Huang - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Controlling heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is crucial to improving
demand-side energy efficiency. At the same time, the thermodynamics of buildings and …

NeurOpt: Neural network based optimization for building energy management and climate control

A Jain, F Smarra, E Reticcioli… - … for Dynamics and …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Model predictive control (MPC) can provide significant energy cost savings in
building operations in the form of energy-efficient control with better occupant comfort, lower …

Whole building energy model for HVAC optimal control: A practical framework based on deep reinforcement learning

Z Zhang, A Chong, Y Pan, C Zhang, KP Lam - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Whole building energy model (BEM) is a physics-based modeling method for building
energy simulation. It has been widely used in the building industry for code compliance …

Data-driven model predictive control with regression trees—an application to building energy management

A Jain, F Smarra, M Behl, R Mangharam - ACM Transactions on Cyber …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Model Predictive Control (MPC) plays an important role in optimizing operations of complex
cyber-physical systems because of its ability to forecast system's behavior and act under …

Optimal HVAC building control with occupancy prediction

A Beltran, AE Cerpa - Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Buildings account for about 41% of primary energy consumption and 75% of the electricity.
Space heating, space cooling, and ventilation are the dominant end uses, accounting for …