TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Burda, Artyom
A1  - Bitner, Dimitri
A1  - Bestehorn, Felix
A1  - Kirches, Christian
A1  - Grotjahn, Martin
T1  - Mixed-Integer Real-time Control of a Building Energy Supply System
JF  - IEEE Control Systems Letters
N2  - We present a methodology based on mixed-integer nonlinear model predictive control for a real-time building energy management system in application to a single-family house with a combined heat and power (CHP) unit. The developed strategy successfully deals with the switching behavior of the system components as well as minimum admissible operating time constraints by use of a special switch-cost-aware rounding procedure. The quality of the presented solution is evaluated in comparison to the globally optimal dynamic programming method and conventional rule-based control strategy. Based on a real-world scenario, we show that our approach is more than real-time capable while maintaining high correspondence with the globally optimal solution. We achieve an average optimality gap of 2.5% compared to 20% for a conventional control approach, and are faster and more scalable than a dynamic programming approach.
KW  - Building automation
KW  - Energy management
KW  - Optimal control
KW  - Model Predictive Control
KW  - mixed-integer nonlinear model predictive control
KW  - Energiemanagement
KW  - Optimale Kontrolle
KW  - Modellprädiktive Regelung
KW  - Nichtlineare modellprädiktive Regelung
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-24721
SN  - 2475-1456
SS  - 2475-1456
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2472
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2472
VL  - 7
SP  - 907
EP  - 912
S1  - 6
PB  - IEEE
ER  -