Abstract
A chronological overview of the advanced control strategies for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) is presented in this article. The overview focuses on hard-computing or control techniques, such as proportional-integral-derivative, optimal, nonlinear, adaptive, and robust; soft-computing or control techniques, such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms; and on the fusion or hybrid of hard- and soft-control techniques. Thus, it is to be noted that the terminology "hard" and "soft" computing/control has nothing to do with the "hardware" and "software" that is being generally used. Part I of a two-part series focuses on hard-control strategies, and Part II focuses on soft-andfusion-control in addition to some future directions in HVAC&R research. This overview is not intended to be an exhaustive survey on this topic, and any omission of other works is purely unintentional.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2-21 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | HVAC and R Research |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The funding provided for this research activity, performed under subcontract support of a laboratory-directed research and development (LDRD) project focusing on areas of both energy science and national security at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, is gratefully acknowledged.
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