A robust model predictive control strategy for improving the control performance of air-conditioning systems

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2650-2658

  Huang, Gongsheng ^a   Wang, Shengwei ^a   Xu, Xinhua ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b School of Materials Science and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Air conditioning system; Robust model predictive control; Robustness; Time delay uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AIR HANDLING UNITS; AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM; AIRCONDITIONING SYSTEMS; CONDITIONING PROCESS; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CONVENTIONAL PI CONTROL; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; FIRST-ORDER; NON-LINEARITY; OFFLINE; OPERATION CONDITIONS; POLYTOPE; ROBUST CONTROLLERS; ROBUST MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; ROBUST STRATEGY; ROBUSTNESS; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; STRATEGY USE; SUPPLY AIR TEMPERATURE; SYSTEM GAIN; TIME DELAY MODEL; TIME-DELAY UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAIN TIME DELAY; VARIABLE AIR VOLUME; VARIABLE DYNAMICS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

AIR CONDITIONING; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TIME DELAY;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 67651205236     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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