An Epistemic-Deontic-Axiologic (EDA) agent-based Energy Management System in office buildings

Jiang, L., Yao, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-7224, Liu, K. and McCrindle, R. (2017) An Epistemic-Deontic-Axiologic (EDA) agent-based Energy Management System in office buildings. Applied Energy, 205. pp. 440-452. ISSN 0306-2619 doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.081

Abstract/Summary

In the UK, buildings contribute about one third of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Space heating and cooling systems are among the biggest energy consumers in buildings. This research aims to develop a novel Building Energy Management System (BEMS) to reduce the energy consumption of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system while fulfilling each occupant’ thermal comfort requirement. This paper presents a newly developed novel method, Epistemic-Deontic-Axiologic (EDA) Agent-based solution to support the Energy Management System meeting the dual targets of occupant thermal comfort and energy efficiency. The multi-agent solutions are applied to the BEMS. The problem decomposition method is used to define the architecture of the system. The Epistemic-Deontic-Axiologic (EDA) agent model is applied to develop the rational local and personal agents inside the system. These EDA-based agents select their optimal action plan by considering the occupants’ thermal sensations, their behavioural adaptations and the energy consumption of the HVAC system. The Newly-developed personal thermal sensation models and group-of-people-based thermal sensation models generated by support vector machine (SVM) based algorithms are applied to evaluate the occupants’ thermal sensations. These models are developed from the data collected in a real built environment. Simulation results prove that the newly-developed BEMS can help the HVAC system reduce the energy consumption by up to 10% while fulfilling the occupants’ thermal comfort requirements.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/71565
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.081
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of the Built Environment > Energy and Environmental Engineering group Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Publisher	Elsevier
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