ℓε-Regularized Economic Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Multizone Buildings

Farah Gabsi, Frederic Hamelin, Nathalie Sauer, Joseph Yame

2020

Abstract

This paper presents a new thermal regulation technique for multizone buildings, possibly equipped with discontinuously (on/off) operating HVAC actuators, based on regularized economic model predictive control (REMPC). In the presence of actuators operating on an on/off basis, it often happens that the control scenario resulting from such a strategy is very “aggressive” towards these same actuators due to the many on/off cycles. This phenomenon can lead to premature wear of the actuators most sensitive to these repeated state changes (especially heat pump compressors). In order to take into account the “aggressiveness” of a control scenario and to increase the lifetime of the actuators, an economic criterion with a regularization term based on the parsimony-promoting property of the ℓε-norm (ε small) is used. This term is sufficiently generic to allow the regularization of the optimal control law by taking into account discontinuous control inputs (on/off), reducing the number of actuators used at any given time or avoiding inappropriate control scenarios (alternating use of heat pump in heating/cooling modes,...). To solve the minimization problem of the non-convex ℓε-regularized economic criterion, we use an iterative algorithm recently derived in (Gabsi et al., 2018b). The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is illustrated on the “Eco-Safe” platform at CRAN Nancy, France.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gabsi F., Hamelin F., Sauer N. and Yame J. (2020). ℓε-Regularized Economic Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Multizone Buildings.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-418-3, pages 137-148. DOI: 10.5220/0009392801370148

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens20,
author={Farah Gabsi and Frederic Hamelin and Nathalie Sauer and Joseph Yame},
title={ℓε-Regularized Economic Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Multizone Buildings},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2020},
pages={137-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009392801370148},
isbn={978-989-758-418-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - ℓε-Regularized Economic Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Multizone Buildings
SN - 978-989-758-418-3
AU - Gabsi F.
AU - Hamelin F.
AU - Sauer N.
AU - Yame J.
PY - 2020
SP - 137
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0009392801370148