Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are the major energy-consuming devices in buildings. Nowadays, due to the high demand for HVAC system installation in buildings, designing an effective controller in order to decrease the energy consumption of the devices while meeting the thermal comfort demands in buildings are the most important goals of control designers. The purpose of this article is to investigate the different control methods for Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC & R) systems. The advantages and disadvantages of each control method are discussed and finally the Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) method is introduced as a new strategy for HVAC systems. The FCM method is an intelligent and advanced control technique to address the nonlinearity, Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO), complexity and coupling effect features of the systems. The significance of this method and improvements by this method are compared with other methods.
Abstract:One of the high energy consuming devices in the buildings is the air-conditioning system. Designing a proper controller to consider the thermal comfort and simultaneously control the energy usage of the device will impact on the system energy efficiency and its performance. The aim of this study was to design a Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO), non-linear, and intelligent controller on direct expansion air-conditioning system The control algorithm uses the Fuzzy Cognitive
Designing a suitable controller for air-conditioning systems to reduce energy consumption and simultaneously meet the requirements of the system is very challenging. Important factors such as stability and performance of the designed controllers should be investigated to ensure the effectiveness of these controllers. In this article, the stability and performance of the fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) controller are investigated. The FCM method is used to control the direct expansion air conditioning system (DX A/C). The FCM controller has the ability to do online learning, and can achieve fast convergence thanks to its simple mathematical computation. The stability analysis of the controller was conducted using both fuzzy bidirectional associative memories (FBAMs) and the Lyapunov function. The performances of the controller were tested based on its ability for reference tracking and disturbance rejection. On the basis of the stability analysis using FBAMS and Lyapunov functions, the system is globally stable. The controller is able to track the set point faithfully, maintaining the temperature and humidity at the desired value. In order to simulate the disturbances, heat and moisture load changed to measure the ability of the controller to reject the disturbance. The results showed that the proposed controller can track the set point and has a good ability for disturbance rejection, making it an effective controller to be employed in the DX A/C system and suitable for a nonlinear robust control system. Nowadays, the use of different controllers on HVAC systems is considered as an important issue, with the aim of increasing the system performance, by reason of their high installation demand in buildings and their huge energy consumption.The direct expansion air-conditioning (DX A/C) system is considered as a subgroup of HVAC systems. The mentioned system has two types of units, window units and split units, which are frequently employed in small-to medium-sized buildings by reason of having a simple configuration, low cost maintenance, and higher energy efficiency [3,4].According to the authors of [2], energy efficacy and indoor thermal conditions are the main objectives one needs to take into account when designing HVAC or A/C systems. Because of the complicated features of HVAC and A/C systems, attaining the mathematical model of HVAC and air conditioning systems is intricate and difficult. Likewise, designing an appropriate controller becomes a big challenge [5,6]. HVAC system is a multiple-Input and multiple-output (MIMO) system, sometimes with coupled parameters [7]. Moreover, it is a complex nonlinear system, which makes deriving the exact mathematical model a challenging task [3]. Consequently, the control system must be able to deal simultaneously with cross-coupling effects, nonlinearity, and uncertainty of the system. The high energy consumption of these systems calls for an intelligent control system that can adjust the parameters according to the systems' demands, so that it could prevent energy loss and b...
This paper investigated the implementing of soft computing methodology of fuzzy cogni tive map on controlling parameters of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems. In the past few years, many researches have been done on application of different controllers on heating, ventilating and airconditioning system as a more energy consuming part of the building automation system. Unlike the conventional control methods which are used more in this area like PID controller, the fuzzy cognitive maps method was chosen to control of the temperature and humidity of the room in winter operation sea son and summer operation season. By applying the fuzzy cogni tive map controller, more energy efficiency and also more energy saving has obtained. The advantages of using fuzzy cogni tive maps indicated as a controller on the typical heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system in this paper. The algorithm of FCM control reached to the goals of comfort, robustness and energy saving.
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