文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Humans-in-the-Building: Getting Rid of Thermostats in Comfort-Based Energy Management Control Systems

作者：Wang, Jiali[1,2,3];Tang, Yang[1,2];Schenato, Luca[3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, State Key Lab Ind Control Technol, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Key Lab Smart Mfg Energy Chem Proc, Minist Educ, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[3]Univ Padua, Dept Informat Engn, I-35131 Padua, Italy

年份：2024

卷号：8

起止页码：1493

外文期刊名：IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS

收录：EI(收录号：20242516278672);WOS:【ESCI(收录号:WOS:001258855400008)】；

基金：This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62293502, Grant 62233005, and Grant 62293504; in part by the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (the 111 Project) under Grant B17017; and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 222202417006.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Humans-in-the-building; thermal comfort; real-time; discomfort signals; building energy consumption

摘要：The Energy Management Control Systems present in today's Building Automation Systems (BASs) typically adopt thermostats, potentially integrated with humidity, CO2, and occupancy sensors, to regulate internal temperature within a predefined range to optimize energy consumption. However direct feedback of occupants' personal comfort is rarely considered. Differently, this letter proposes a new thermal control paradigm, referred to as "humans-in-the-buildings", where individuals can directly signal their discomfort to the energy management system which thus adjusts the HVAC control inputs accordingly. We provide a mathematical formulation for this novel comfort-based control and demonstrate that neither temperature sensors nor knowledge of the occupants' discomfort profiles is required, as each room's temperature is regulated based solely on the real-time discomfort signals from individuals. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed comfort-based control is substantiated through simulations conducted on multiple adjacent rooms established building dynamics modeling.