Black-box modeling of buildings thermal behavior using system identification

Abstract

In this paper the modeling of buildings thermal behavior is studied. The main goal is to develop a modeling procedure that can be used at different scales (a thermal zone, a floor or a whole building) and on different buildings. The scalability of the chosen black-box model structure is first assessed; simulation experiments are then conducted in order to test if the modeling procedure is reusable. As these tests are hardly feasible in practice, a real university building is first modeled using an energy simulation software. This model is then used to validate the proposed approach.

Tractable and Robust Modeling of Building Flexibility Using Coarse Data

“…Thus, unlike the artificial neural network models in [22], [24] that employ nonlinear activation functions, our proposed model employs exclusively linear equalities and inequalities that can be easily embedded in most power system optimization and control settings. The work in [23] is closely related to ours since it also identifies a coarse (e.g., facility-level) models of thermal dynamics. The main difference is that the approach in [23] provides a single central temperature estimate, whereas ours provides upper and lower estimates.…”

“…The work in [23] is closely related to ours since it also identifies a coarse (e.g., facility-level) models of thermal dynamics. The main difference is that the approach in [23] provides a single central temperature estimate, whereas ours provides upper and lower estimates.…”

“…Using metered data to identify building models have been studied [16], [20]- [23]. The authors of [16] propose a maximum likelihood estimation of the RC parameters of a building.…”

“…Here K is the set of K training days and the subscript k denotes data of the k th day. 3 EnergyPlus is widely used in the literature in lieu of actual building measurements that are rarely available to academic researchers, e.g., in References [23], [30], [31]…”

Projeto e Estudo de Caso da Implementação de um Controle MPC em Sistemas HVAC para Salas Limpas do itt-Chip/Unisinos

“…Desta forma, identifica-se nesse ponto um potencial para novos estudos nessa área. (Abdo-Allah et al, 2017;Castellanos Molina et al, 2014;Royer et al, 2014)…”