Intelligent control of HVAC systems. Part I: Modeling and synthesis

Abstract

This is the first part of a work on intelligent type control of Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems. The study is performed from the perspective of giving a unitary control method to ensure high energy efficiency and air quality improving. To illustrate the proposed HVAC control technique, in this first part it is considered as benchmark problem a single thermal space HVAC system. The construction of the mathematical model is performed only with a view to obtain a framework of HVAC intelligent control validation by numerical simulations. The latter will be reported in a second part of the study.

Keywords

• HVAC
• HVAC mathematical model
• HVAC intelligent control
• fuzzy logic control
• neural network control
• PID control
• self-tuning PID-type fuzzy adaptive control