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most citedA Review of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Building Energy Management

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eess.SY2021★ 1 cited

Optimal Operation of a Hydrogen-based Building Multi-Energy System Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Liang Yu, Shuqi Qin, Zhanbo Xu +3

Since hydrogen has many advantages (e.g., free pollution, extensive sources, convenient storage and transportation), hydrogen-based multi-energy systems (HMESs) have received wide…

eess.SY2020★ 1 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Grid Protection Against Coordinated Multistage Transmission Line Attacks

Liang Yu, Zhen Gao, Shuqi Qin +4

With the increase of connectivity in power grid, a cascading failure may be triggered by the failure of a transmission line, which can lead to substantial economic losses and serio…

eess.SY2020★ 475 cited

A Review of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Building Energy Management

Liang Yu, Shuqi Qin, Meng Zhang +3

Global buildings account for about 30% of the total energy consumption and carbon emission, raising severe energy and environmental concerns. Therefore, it is significant and urgen…

eess.SY2020★ 4 cited

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for HVAC Control in Commercial Buildings

Liang Yu, Yi Sun, Zhanbo Xu +4

In commercial buildings, about 40%-50% of the total electricity consumption is attributed to Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which places an economic bur…

eess.SY2019★ 471 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Home Energy Management

Liang Yu, Weiwei Xie, Di Xie +6

In this paper, we investigate an energy cost minimization problem for a smart home in the absence of a building thermal dynamics model with the consideration of a comfortable tempe…

eess.SY2017★ 3 cited

Distributed Real-Time HVAC Control for Cost-Efficient Commercial Buildings under Smart Grid Environment

Liang Yu, Di Xie, Tao Jiang +2

In this paper, we investigate the problem of minimizing the long-term total cost (i.e., the sum of energy cost and thermal discomfort cost) associated with a Heating, Ventilation,…

eess.SY2017★ 1 cited

Online Energy Management for a Sustainable Smart Home with an HVAC Load and Random Occupancy

Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yulong Zou

In this paper, we investigate the problem of minimizing the sum of energy cost and thermal discomfort cost in a long-term time horizon for a sustainable smart home with a Heating,…

cs.DC2017★ 51 cited

Fog-Assisted Operational Cost Reduction for Cloud Data Centers

Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yulong Zou

In this paper, we intend to reduce the operational cost of cloud data centers with the help of fog devices, which can avoid the revenue loss due to wide-area network propagation de…

cs.DC2016

Distributed Real-Time Energy Management in Data Center Microgrids

Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yulong Zou

Data center operators are typically faced with three significant problems when running their data centers, i.e., rising electricity bills, growing carbon footprints and unexpected…