An efficient evolutionary approach to parameter identification in a building thermal model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 957-969

  Yang, Zhenyu ^a,b   Li, Xiaoli ^c,d,e   Bowers, Chris P ^c   Schnier, Thorsten ^a,c   Tang, Ke ^a   Yao, Xin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building thermal model; differential evolution (DE); evolutionary optimization; parameter identification

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PARAMETERS; BUILDING THERMAL MODELS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; FAST EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; IDENTIFIED PARAMETER; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMIZATION TASK; SOLUTION QUALITY; TARGET MODEL; THERMAL DYNAMICS; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL SYSTEMS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); OPTIMIZATION; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84867855030     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2174983     Document Type: Article

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