Publications related to Predictive Control methods for Building Control and Demand Response

Improved methodology and set-point design for diagnosis of model-plant mismatch in control loops using plant-model ratio

Performance of any model-based control scheme depends on the quality of model. When these schemes deliver poor loop performance due to model-plant mismatch (MPM), a detection of the same needs to be in place. A recently introduced plant model ratio (PMR) n ...

Elsevier2014

Advanced Control of Electrochromic Windows

Nicolas Morel, Nikolaos Zarkadis

In our research we use the technology of electrochromic (EC) glazing to maximize the use of daylight and minimize the energy consumption in buildings while preserving visual and thermal comfort of the users. We propose an advanced automatic control of EC w ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

Modelling the Urban Microclimate and its Influence on Building Energy Demands of an Urban Neighbourhood

Jérôme Henri Kämpf

In the past decades the portion of the population living in urban areas has continuously increased. Due to the high building density, the microclimate in urban areas changed significantly compared to rural areas. The temperatures measured in urban areas ar ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles.

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures represent a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and cooling of buildings and de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the pri ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

Modelling the urban microclimate and its impact on the energy demand of buildings and building clusters

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Govinda Upadhyay

The urban microclimate (UMC) can strongly affect the building energy demand. In this paper, the impact of the UMC on the space heating and cooling energy demand of buildings is analysed for typical office buildings in street canyon configurations, using de ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2013

A Packet Loss Compliant Logic-Based Communication Algorithm for Cooperative Path-Following Control

Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

We introduce an event driven communication logic for decentralized control of a network of robotic vehicles (agents). The strategy proposed is robust to packet losses and drives the vehicles to predefined paths while holding a desired geometric formation p ...

2013

Open-loop control of a separated boundary layer

François Gallaire, Edouard Boujo

Linear optimal gains

G_opt(\omega)

are computed for the separated boundary-layer flow past a two-dimensional bump in the subcritical regime. Very large values are found, making it possible for small-amplitude noise to be strongly amplified and to destabi ...

Cépaduès Editions2013

Indirect, Non-adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Applications to Motion Control of Swimming Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Yannick Morel

Motion control of bio-inspired mobile robotic platforms can prove a challenging problem. In particular, models for the considered type of systems may prove nonlinear, uncertain, and fairly complicated. To address these issues, use of an output predictor-ba ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2013

A Quotient Method for Designing Nonlinear Controllers

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt

An algorithmic method is proposed to design stabilizing control laws for a class of nonlinear systems that comprises single-input feedback-linearizable systems and a particular set of single-input non feedback-linearizable systems. The method proceeds iter ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Robust Smith Predictor Design for Time-Delay Systems with H infinity Performance

Alireza Karimi, Vinicius De Oliveira

A new method for robust fixed-order H-infinity controller design for uncertain time-delay systems is presented. It is shown that the H-infinity robust performance condition can be represented by a set of convex constraints with respect to the parameters of ...

2013

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Improved methodology and set-point design for diagnosis of model-plant mismatch in control loops using plant-model ratio

Advanced Control of Electrochromic Windows

Modelling the Urban Microclimate and its Influence on Building Energy Demands of an Urban Neighbourhood

Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles.

Modelling the urban microclimate and its impact on the energy demand of buildings and building clusters

A Packet Loss Compliant Logic-Based Communication Algorithm for Cooperative Path-Following Control

Open-loop control of a separated boundary layer

Indirect, Non-adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Applications to Motion Control of Swimming Robots

A Quotient Method for Designing Nonlinear Controllers

Robust Smith Predictor Design for Time-Delay Systems with H infinity Performance

Improved methodology and set-point design for diagnosis of model-plant mismatch in control loops using plant-model ratio

Modelling the Urban Microclimate and its Influence on Building Energy Demands of an Urban Neighbourhood

Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles.

Advanced Control of Electrochromic Windows

A Quotient Method for Designing Nonlinear Controllers

Modelling the urban microclimate and its impact on the energy demand of buildings and building clusters

A Packet Loss Compliant Logic-Based Communication Algorithm for Cooperative Path-Following Control

Open-loop control of a separated boundary layer

Indirect, Non-adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Applications to Motion Control of Swimming Robots

Robust Smith Predictor Design for Time-Delay Systems with H infinity Performance