Control-oriented Thermal Building Modelling

Abstract

<div>Demand side flexibility (DSF) is becoming an important tool for the power system operation. With air-conditioned buildings being key candidates for DSF, this paper presents a control-oriented thermal building modelling approach which is kept in the linear domain and therefore suited for the employment in convex optimization problems. Along with the building model, two DSF indicators are proposed and applied to assess the DSF potential for an office building in Singapore.</div>

Pymodconn: A Python Package for Developing Modular Sequence-to-Sequence Control-Oriented Deep Neural Networks

“…They are grounded in first-principle equations to calculate the behavior and response of the system to different inputs. Some recent examples of white-box models are CoBo [4] for control-oriented building dynamics simulation, WFSim [5] for control-oriented wind farm simulation, and control-oriented models for chemical batteries [6,7]. Grey-box or reduced-order models find a middle ground by using simplified dynamic equations combined with datasets for parameter identification.…”