Robust MPC for temperature control of air-conditioning systems concerning on constraints and multitype uncertainties

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-55

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

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCONDITIONING SYSTEMS; CONSTANT AIR VOLUMES; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; DISCRETE MODELS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; DYNAMICS UNCERTAINTIES; HVAC SYSTEM; ONLINE TUNING; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; PID CONTROL; POLYTOPES; RATE LIMIT; ROBUST CONTROLLERS; ROBUST MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; ROBUST MODELS; SAMPLING PERIOD; SIMULATION TESTS; STATE-SPACE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLERS; LINEAR MATRIX INEQUALITIES; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77649219633     PISSN: 01436244     EISSN: 14770849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143624409352420     Document Type: Article

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