Optimal partitioning for the decentralized thermal control of buildings

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1756-1770

  Chandan, Vikas ^a   Alleyne, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Clustering; Decentralized control; Model predictive control; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING; DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; FAULT PROPAGATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL PARTITIONING;

BUILDINGS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84897654460     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2012.2219308     Document Type: Article

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