The thermal storage potential in commercial buildings is an enormous resource for providing
various ancillary services to the grid. In this paper, we show how fans in Heating, Ventilation …

The world faces an energy problem. Oil supply is gradually running out. Its use is polluting
the planet with greenhouse gas. Most alternative energy sources also pose some …

This paper proposes an aggregation-based model reduction method for nonlinear models of
multi-zone building thermal dynamics. The full-order model, which is already a lumped …

As research in the area of model predictive control (MPC) for building energy systems
intensifies, appropriate methods are required to model a building's thermodynamic …

This paper presents a real-time decentralized temperature control scheme via Heating
Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems for energy efficient buildings, which …

This paper studies the problem of decentralized control design for thermal control in
buildings, to achieve a satisfactory trade-off between underlying performance and …

The purpose of this paper is to show how insight obtained from a mean-field model can be
used to create an architecture for approximate dynamic programming (ADP) for a certain …