Experimental Study on Intelligent Control Scheme for Fan Coil Air-Conditioning System

Abstract EN

An intelligent control scheme for fan coil air-conditioning systems has been put forward in order to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional proportion-integral-derivative (PID) control scheme.

These shortcomings include the inability of anti-interference and large inertia.

An intelligent control test rig of fan coil air-conditioning system has been built, and MATLAB/Simulink dynamics simulation software has been adopted to implement the intelligent control scheme.

A software for data exchange has been developed to combine the intelligence control system and the building automation (BA) system.

Experimental tests have been conducted to investigate the effectiveness of different control schemes including the traditional PID control, fuzzy control, and fuzzy-PID control for fan coil air-conditioning system.

The effects of control schemes have been compared and analyzed in robustness, static and dynamic character, and economy.

The results have shown that the developed data exchange interface software can induce the intelligent control scheme of the BA system more effectively.

Among the proposed control strategies, fuzzy-PID control scheme which has the advantages of both traditional PID and fuzzy schemes is the optimal control scheme for the fan coil air-conditioning system.