Energy saving for building heating via a simple and efficient model-free control design: First steps with computer simulations

Hassane Abouaïssa (1) , Ola Alhaj Hasan (2) , Cédric Join (3, 4, 5) , Michel Fliess (5, 6) , Didier Defer (2)

1 LGI2A - Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d'Automatique de l'Artois
2 LGCgE - Laboratoire Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement [Béthune]
3 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
4 NON-A - Non-Asymptotic estimation for online systems
5 AL.I.E.N. - ALgèbre pour Identification & Estimation Numériques
6 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]

The model-based control of building heating systems for energy saving encounters severe physical, mathematical and calibration difficulties in the numerous attempts that has been published until now. This topic is addressed here via a new model-free control setting, where the need of any mathematical description disappears. Several convincing computer simulations are presented. Comparisons with classic PI controllers and flatness-based predictive control are provided.

Keywords: flatness-based control; predictive control; PI controllers; intelligent P controllers; model-free control; building heating; energy saving

Domains: Environmental Engineering; Automatic Control Engineering; Systems and Control [cs.SY]; Automatic; Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]; Optimization and Control [math.OC]

Hassane Abouaïssa, Ola Alhaj Hasan, Cédric Join, Michel Fliess, Didier Defer. Energy saving for building heating via a simple and efficient model-free control design: First steps with computer simulations. 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, ICSTCC 2017, Oct 2017, Sinaia, Romania. ⟨hal-01568899v3⟩