Title: A hybrid intelligent control based cyber-physical system for thermal comfort in smart homes

Authors: Jiawei Zhu; Fabrice Lauri; Abderrafiaa Koukam; Vincent Hilaire; Yishuai Lin; Youquan Liu

Addresses: School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710064, China ' IRTES-SET, Université de technologie Belfort-Montbéliard, 90010 Belfort cedex, France ' IRTES-SET, Université de technologie Belfort-Montbéliard, 90010 Belfort cedex, France ' IRTES-SET, Université de technologie Belfort-Montbéliard, 90010 Belfort cedex, France ' Software Engineering Institute, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710126, China ' School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710064, China

Abstract: With the fast development of human society, as environmental issues have drawn incomparable attention, energy efficiency is playing a significant role in residential buildings. Meanwhile, spending more time in homes leads people to constantly improve comfort there. Considering the fact that space heating makes a great contribution to residential energy consumption and thermal comfort, this paper presents a novel hybrid intelligent control (HIC) system to manage space heating devices in a smart home with advanced technologies to save energy while to increase thermal comfort level. The approach combines a meta-heuristic algorithm used to compute a setpoint from the Predicted Mean Vote model with a Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller for indoor temperature regulation. In order to validate the system, computer simulations are conducted and analysed. The results indicate the proposed control system can provide better thermal comfort comparing with other conventional and intelligent control methods, and consume less energy when demand response is considered.

Keywords: thermal comfort; demand response; smart home; CPS; cyber-physical system; PSO; particle swarm optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2019.098863

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2019 Vol.30 No.4, pp.199 - 214

Received: 23 Jun 2016
Accepted: 06 Mar 2017
Published online: 09 Apr 2019 *

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