Advanced control systems engineering for energy and comfort management in a building environment—A review

AI Dounis, C Caraiscos - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Given restrictions that comfort conditions in the interior of a building are satisfied, it becomes
obvious that the problem of energy conservation is a multidimensional one. Scientists from a …

[LIVRE][B] The CRC handbook of mechanical engineering

DY Goswami - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
Since the first edition of this comprehensive handbook was published ten years ago, many
changes have taken place in engineering and related technologies. Now, this best-selling …

Design and simulation of self-tuning PID-type fuzzy adaptive control for an expert HVAC system

S Soyguder, M Karakose, H Alli - Expert systems with applications, 2009 - Elsevier
The modelling, numerical simulation and intelligent control of an expert HVAC (heating,
ventilating and air-conditioning) system having two different zones with variable flow-rate …

Control strategies for indoor environment quality and energy efficiency—a review

Y Song, S Wu, YY Yan - International journal of low-carbon …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The demand for better indoor environment has led to a wide use of heating, ventilating and
air conditioning (HVAC) systems. However, this demanding cannot be sustained without a …

A proposal for the genetic lateral tuning of linguistic fuzzy systems and its interaction with rule selection

R Alcalá, J Alcalá-Fdez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Linguistic fuzzy modeling allows us to deal with the modeling of systems by building a
linguistic model which is clearly interpretable by human beings. However, since the …

Simulation-assisted control in building energy management systems

JA Clarke, J Cockroft, S Conner, JW Hand, NJ Kelly… - Energy and …, 2002 - Elsevier
Technological advances in real-time data collection, data transfer and ever-increasing
computational power are bringing simulation-assisted control and on-line fault detection and …

Fuzzy control of HVAC systems optimized by genetic algorithms

R Alcalá, JM Benítez, J Casillas, O Cordón, R Pérez - Applied Intelligence, 2003 - Springer
This paper presents the use of genetic algorithms to develop smartly tuned fuzzy logic
controllers dedicated to the control of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems …

A genetic rule weighting and selection process for fuzzy control of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems

R Alcala, J Casillas, O Cordon, A Gonzalez… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose the use of weighted linguistic fuzzy rules in combination with a rule
selection process to develop accurate fuzzy logic controllers dedicated to the intelligent …

Design of a fuzzy system for living space thermal-comfort regulation

AI Dounis, DE Manolakis - Applied Energy, 2001 - Elsevier
The present paper describes the design of a living space comfort regulator using fuzzy logic.
Comfort is a fuzzy concept, different for different people and depending on the work done in …

Predicting of fan speed for energy saving in HVAC system based on adaptive network based fuzzy inference system

S Soyguder, H Alli - Expert Systems with Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, a HVAC (heating, ventilating and air-conditioning) system has two different
zones was designed and fan motor speed to minimize energy consumption of the HVAC …