Building Climate Control Using MPC

Abstract

Building climate control problem is studied in this project where some basic concepts on building heat transfer are introduced and using one of the best and effective methods to solve the dynamic optimization problem based on Model predictive control. A simplified linear state space model that uses some geometry, architecture and civil engineering structure and environmental weather data is derived for designing the MPC controller. Simulations are conducted on a three-zone building to show the effectiveness of MPC control/ Several factors, in addition to the kind of our model, influence the performance of the MPC, including the disturbance from model uncertainty and approximated weather data.