Extraction of supervisory building control rules from model predictive control of windows in a mixed mode building

Assessment of wastewater treatment facility compliance with decreasing ammonia discharge limits using a regression tree model

“…Unlike ordinary regression analyses, CART has the unique ability to capture the complex higher order interactions among the input variables as well as provide a visual representation of these interactions. CART has been widely used in various fields like smart energy efficient building systems (May-ostendorp et al, 2013), construction safety management (Tixier et al, 2015), wastewater treatment plant performance modeling (Atanasova and Kompare, 2002), landslide susceptibility studies (Youssef et al, 2015), data mining (Chrysos et al, 2013) etc. The predictors used in the regression tree are selected by determining variable importance using random forests, which is explained below.…”

Data science for building energy management: A review

“…In most cases, these rules are easily interpretable IF-THEN rules, which can help to generate recommendations for control strategies such as feedback mechanisms, and modifications of control processes [28]. For example, May-Ostendorp et al [31] applied different classification techniques to extract rules from offline model predictive control results. The authors used those rules to achieve near-optimal supervisory control strategies for a mixed-mode building during the cooling season.…”

“…The authors used those rules to achieve near-optimal supervisory control strategies for a mixed-mode building during the cooling season. Although a variety of techniques can be applied to extract IF-THEN rules, most authors use classification techniques [32,33], especially decision tree algorithms [31,28]. In addition, classification models are effective tools that can be used to predict building user comfort under different environmental conditions [28].…”

Model-Based Predictive Control of Window Shades

“…The predictive control of building systems is not a new idea but outside of academics, has not been widely applied [14]. The transition from predictive controls from more traditional heuristics, as is seen in much of the research, is usually not a hardware decision and most integration is only a software adjustment to already existing building automation systems (BAS).…”

“…More recently May-Ostedorp et al [14,18] investigated the use of MPC for the operation of windows for commercial building use. The goal was to be able to extract rules offline from MPC results.…”