Adaptive environmental control for optimal energy consumption in hospitals

Author

Kaymaz, Emre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

9-10 Jun 1995

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

172

Abstract

A second order dynamical model of the heating/cooling process in a hospital building is simulated. A fuzzy logic controller (FLC) based on if-then control rules is designed and the performance of the FLC is compared with that of commonly used on/off and PI/PID controllers. Both the FLC and the PI/PID controllers outperform the on/off controller in terms of accuracy, as well as energy consumption. However, the FLC is more robust than the PI/PID controllers in that the FLC is much less sensitive to changes in system parameters and consumes less energy

Keywords

computerised control; cooling; digital simulation; environmental engineering; fuzzy control; heating; medical computing; FLC; PI/PID controllers; adaptive environmental control; energy consumption; fuzzy logic controller; heating/cooling process; hospital building; hospitals; if-then control rules; on/off controller; optimal energy consumption; second order dynamical model; Adaptive control; Buildings; Cooling; Energy consumption; Fuzzy logic; Heating; Hospitals; Optimal control; Programmable control; Three-term control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lubbock, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1995.465434

Filename

465434