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End-to-End Learning-based Operation of Integrated Energy Systems for Buildings and Data Centers
Zhenyu Pu, Yu Yang, Liang Yu +1
Buildings and data centers (DCs) are energy-intensive sectors, playing a critical role to achieve the low-carbon and sustainable energy transition targets. To this end, integrated…
Representation Learning Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Operation of Hydrogen-based Multi-Energy Systems
Zhenyu Pu, Yu Yang, Lun Yang +3
Hydrogen-based multi-energy systems (HMES) have emerged as a promising low-carbon and energy-efficient solution, as it can enable the coordinated operation of electricity, heating…
An Equivalent and Unified Virtual Battery Modeling Framework for Flexibility Characterization of Building HVAC Systems
Qi Zhu, Yu Yang, Liang Yu +3
The heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system dominates building's energy consumption and meanwhile exhibits substantial operational flexibility that can be exploited…
Machine Learning for Smart and Energy-Efficient Buildings
Hari Prasanna Das, Yu-Wen Lin, Utkarsha Agwan +7
Energy consumption in buildings, both residential and commercial, accounts for approximately 40% of all energy usage in the U.S., and similar numbers are being reported from countr…
A Survey of ADMM Variants for Distributed Optimization: Problems, Algorithms and Features
Yu Yang, Xiaohong Guan, Qing-Shan Jia +3
By coordinating terminal smart devices or microprocessors to engage in cooperative computation to achieve systemlevel targets, distributed optimization is incrementally favored by…
Proximal ADMM for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Yu Yang, Qing-Shan Jia, Zhanbo Xu +2
By enabling the nodes or agents to solve small-sized subproblems to achieve coordination, distributed algorithms are favored by many networked systems for efficient and scalable co…
Selling Renewable Utilization Service to Consumers via Cloud Energy Storage
Yu Yang, Utkarsha Agwan, Guoqiang Hu +1
This paper proposes a cloud energy storage (CES) model for enabling local renewable integration of building consumers (BCs). Different from most existing third-party based ES shari…
Optimal Sharing and Fair Cost Allocation of Community Energy Storage
Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, Costas J. Spanos
This paper studies an energy storage (ES) sharing model which is cooperatively invested by multiple buildings for harnessing on-site renewable utilization and grid price arbitrage.…
Distributed Control of Multi-zone HVAC Systems Considering Indoor Air Quality
Yu Yang, Seshadhri Srinivasan, Guoqiang Hu +1
This paper studies a scalable control method for multi-zone heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to optimize the energy cost for maintaining thermal comfort and…
A Proximal Linearization-based Decentralized Method for Nonconvex Problems with Nonlinear Constraints
Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, Costas J. Spanos
Decentralized optimization for non-convex problems are now demanding by many emerging applications (e.g., smart grids, smart building, etc.). Though dramatic progress has been achi…
Stochastic Optimal Control of HVAC system for Energy-efficient Buildings
Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, Costas J. Spanos
The heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system accounts for substantial energy use in buildings, whereas a large group of occupants are still not actually feeling comf…
HVAC Energy Cost Optimization for a Multi-zone Building via a Decentralized Approach
Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, Costas J. Spanos
It has been well acknowledged that buildings account for a large proportion of the world's energy consumption. However, the energy use of buildings, especially the heating, ventila…