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In the research domain of intelligent buildings and smart home, modeling and optimization of the thermal comfort and energy consumption are important issues. This paper presents a type-2 fuzzy method based data-driven strategy for the modeling and optimization of thermal comfort words and energy consumption. First, we propose a methodology to convert the interval survey data on thermal comfort words to the interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2 FSs) which can reflect the inter-personal and intra-personal uncertainties contained in the intervals. This data-driven strategy includes three steps: survey data collection and pre-processing, ambiguity-preserved conversion of the survey intervals to their representative type-1 fuzzy sets (T1 FSs), IT2 FS modeling. Then, using the IT2 FS models of thermal comfort words as antecedent parts, an evolving type-2 fuzzy model is constructed to reflect the online observed energy consumption data. Finally, a multiobjective optimization model is presented to recommend a reasonable temperature range that can give comfortable feeling while reducing energy consumption. The proposed method can be used to realize comfortable but energy-saving environment in smart home or intelligent buildings.
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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61105077, 61074149, 61273149, and 61273326), and the Excellent Young and Middle-Aged Scientist Award Grant of Shandong Province of China (BS2012DX026).
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Li, C., Zhang, G., Wang, M. et al. Data-driven modeling and optimization of thermal comfort and energy consumption using type-2 fuzzy method. Soft Comput 17, 2075–2088 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-013-1117-4
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