HVAC systems are the major energy consumers in buildings. Operation and control of HVAC
systems have significant impacts on the energy or cost efficiency of buildings besides their …

A chronological overview of the advanced control strategies for heating, ventilation, air-
conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) is presented in this article. The overview focuses …

Cooling of commercial buildings contributes significantly to the peak demand placed on an
electrical utility grid. Time-of-use electricity rates encourage shifting of electrical loads to off …

Building simple and effective models are essential to many applications, such as building
performance diagnosis and optimal control. Detailed physical models are time consuming …

A control strategy using a system approach based on predicting the responses of overall
system environment and energy performance to the changes of control settings of VAV air …

Building thermal transfer models are essential to predict transient cooling or heating
requirements for performance monitoring, diagnosis and control strategy analysis. Detailed …

Intelligent building technology for building operation, called the optimization process, is
developed and validated in this paper. The optimization process using a multi-objective …

This paper presents a methodology for the development and implementation of Model
Predictive Control (MPC) in institutional buildings. This methodology relies on Artificial …

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis on the optimal control protocol to minimize
the daily operating cost of an air-conditioning system in a 33 600 m2 office building. The …

Recent efforts to incorporate aspects of artificial intelligence into the design and operation of
automatic control systems have focused attention on techniques such as fuzzy logic, artificial …