System and method for generating a controller for multi-zone heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system

Abstract

A computer-implemented system for generating a controller to control a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system decomposes a model of the HVAC system into a collection of transformed models defining relationship between input channels and output channels with decoupled dynamics, such that a single input channel affects only one corresponding output channel Each input channel is defined by a weighted combination of control inputs to the HVAC system, and each output channel is defined by a weighted combination of temperatures affected by operation of the HVAC system. The collection of decoupled transformed models includes a first transformed model modeling dynamics of the outdoor unit as a relationship between uniform control for the set of indoor units and the average temperature in the set of rooms and includes a set of second transformed models. Each second transformed model models a difference between room dynamics and room coupling dynamics. The system generates a decouple controller for each transformed model to form a collection of decoupled controllers, wherein, each decouple controller defines a relationship between measurements the output channel and inputs to the input channel of the corresponding transformed model.