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Title: Assessment of internal and external disturbances on the fuzzy-based thermal control of a sub-scaled building testbed
This experimental study follows on our previous work on the development of robust fuzzy-based thermal control strategies of a multi-room sub-scaled building testbed. In the present analysis, the focus is placed on testing the robustness of the fuzzy controller under internal and external disturbances, as it deals with maintaining specific setpoint values of room temperatures. The testbed has eight rooms, distributed on two floors, with a cooling unit that supplies cool air to each room, and eight 40 W light bulbs serving as heat sources. T-type thermocouples gather the temperature data, and eight dampers deliver the airflow. The controller uses information about the difference between setpoint and actual temperatures, their derivative, and their cumulative integral. The fuzzy sets and if-then rules are built based on experimental data, and a Mamdani inference method is used to provide the inputs to the actuators. Results from experimental tests show that the fuzzy control strategy can handle the different types of disturbances while maintaining the room setpoints.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2112554
PAR ID:
10525817
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
IOP Publishing
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume:
2766
Issue:
1
ISSN:
1742-6588
Page Range / eLocation ID:
012103
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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