Energy saving for building heating via a simple and efficient model-free control design: First steps with computer simulations
This addresses energy efficiency challenges in building heating for engineers and building managers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing control methods without a major paradigm shift.
The paper tackled energy saving in building heating systems by introducing a model-free control design, eliminating the need for mathematical models, and demonstrated its effectiveness through computer simulations that showed competitive performance compared to classic PI controllers and flatness-based predictive control.
The model-based control of building heating systems for energy saving encounters severe physical, mathematical and calibration difficulties in the numerous attempts that has been published until now. This topic is addressed here via a new model-free control setting, where the need of any mathematical description disappears. Several convincing computer simulations are presented. Comparisons with classic PI controllers and flatness-based predictive control are provided.