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Signal Temporal Logic Control for Residential HVAC Systems to Accommodate High Solar PV Penetration...

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1 to 5
Conference Name
The Eleventh Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2020)
Conference Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Conference Sponsor
IEEE PES
Conference Date
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This paper proposes a new signal temporal logic (STL) control for ON/OFF residential buildings' Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. STL is used to control indoor temperatures while consuming most of the generated solar photovoltaic (PV) power locally to minimize its impact on the grid and reduce the need for large energy storage devices. In contrast to most, if not all, control mechanisms such as the traditional model predictive control (MPC), STL control allows for including temporal constraints in the control formulation to further relax indoor temperatures' constraints and allow them to exceed the comfort band limits for a prespecified (short) period of time. This relaxation allows to consume an additional PV power by the HVAC systems, which prevents such an unwanted intermittent power from affecting the grid. We formulate the MPC-based STL control mechanism to implement the objective. Simulation results show that the PV tracking performance has been improved while employing the proposed STL controller.