5 papers
Decentralized Thermal Control of Buildings
Vikas Chandan
Energy requirements for heating and cooling of buildings constitute a major fraction of end use energy consumed. Therefore, it is important to provide the occupant comfort requirem…
Occupancy-Driven Stochastic Decision Framework for Ranking Commercial Building Loads
Milan Jain, Soumya Kundu, Arnab Bhattacharya +5
For effective integration of building operations into the evolving demand response programs of the power grid, real-time decisions concerning the use of building appliances for gri…
Physics-constrained Deep Learning of Multi-zone Building Thermal Dynamics
Jan Drgona, Aaron R. Tuor, Vikas Chandan +1
We present a physics-constrained control-oriented deep learning method for modeling building thermal dynamics. The proposed method is based on the systematic encoding of physics-ba…
Beyond Control: Enabling Smart Thermostats For Leakage Detection
Milan Jain, Mridula Gupta, Amarjeet Singh +1
Smart thermostats, with multiple sensory abilities, are becoming pervasive and ubiquitous, in both residential and commercial buildings. By analyzing occupants' behavior, adjusting…
Scalable Computation of 2D-Minkowski Sum of Arbitrary Non-Convex Domains: Modeling Flexibility in Energy Resources
Soumya Kundu, Vikas Chandan, Karan Kalsi
The flexibility of active () and reactive power () consumption in distributed energy resources (DERs) can be represented as a (potentially non-convex) set of points in the $p…