Publications de Darren Robinson

A bottom-up stochastic model to predict building occupants' time-dependent activities

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi, Urs Wilke

A bottom-up modelling approach together with a set of calibration methodologies is presented to predict residential building occupants' time-dependent activities, for use in dynamic building simulations. The stochastic model to predict activity chains is c ...

Elsevier2013

Verification of stochastic models of window opening behaviour for residential buildings

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on the analyses of data from two distinct measurement campaigns conducted in residential indoor environments in Japan and Switzerland, we identify the specificities of occupants' behaviour with respect to their interactions with windows, including th ...

Taylor & Francis2012

Multi agent simulation of occupants' presence and behaviour

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi, Urs Wilke

2011

Impact of urban morphology on building energy needs: a review on knowledge gained from modeling and monitoring activities

Darren Robinson, Olivier August Pol

Urban morphology is one of the main parameters influencing directly and indirectly buildings’ energy needs. Despite an increasing number of urban energy and environmental modelling tools addressing these issues, the complexity of physical relationships at ...

EPFL2011

Modelling occupants’ personal characteristics for thermal comfort prediction

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on results from a field survey campaign conducted in Switzerand, we show that occupants’ variations in clothing choices, which are relatively unconstrained, are best described by the daily mean outdoor temperature and that major clothing adjustments ...

Springer-Verlag2011

CITYSIM simulation: the case study of Alt-Wiedikon, a neighbourhood of Zürich City

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Maria Papadopoulou, Diane Perez, Urs Wilke

As research in building energy demand simulation is reaching maturity, there is now a growing interest in the evaluation of the energy need of larger and/or pre-existing urban areas [1, 2, 3], to evaluate the energy performance associated with alternative ...

EPFL2011

THE IMPACT OF OCCUPANTS’ BEHAVIOUR ON URBAN ENERGY DEMAND

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Using extensive field survey data acquired over the past seven years at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory at EPFL in Switzerland, models of occupants’ presence, opening and closing of windows and the raising and lowering of blinds have been ...

TU Vienna2010

Solar radiation modelling for urban environments

Darren Robinson

In this paper we briefly describe three alternative techniques for modelling solar radiation in the urban context. These include the use of: (i) simple morphological parameters as indicators of radiation availability, (ii) a ray-tracing program in conjunct ...

Université de Technologie Compiègne2010

Optimisation of building form for solar energy utilisation using constrained evolutionary algorithms

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson

In this paper we describe a new methodology for optimising building and urban geometric forms for the utilisation of solar irradiation, whether by passive or active means. For this we use a new evolutionary algorithm(a hybrid CMA-ES/HDE algorithm) to searc ...

Elsevier2010

Adaptive actions on shading devices in response to local visual stimuli

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on 6 years of continuous measurements, we have analysed in detail the occupancy, thermal and visual parameters influencing actions on shading devices in order to derive an accurate model for the prediction of their usage in office buildings. This art ...

2010