A learning agent for heat-pump thermostat control

12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 1093-1100

  Urieli, Daniel ^a   Stone, Peter ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Energy Savings; Machine Learning

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PUMPS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; THERMOSTATS;

ADAPTIVE REINFORCEMENT; AUXILIARY HEATING SYSTEMS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE; REALISTIC SIMULATORS; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899440153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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