supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC3803201).
The air conditioning(A/C)of cabins allows for customized control,but manual adjustments may distract drivers,as well as result in energy inefficiency.Several existing thermal sensation models require complex inputs,wh...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52278104);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(2017XK2015).
A model-based optimal dispatch framework was proposed to optimize operation of residential flexible loads considering their real-life operating characteristics,energy-related occupant behavior,and the benefits of diff...
Building envelope is the sole interface with outdoors that can lie in the level of integrating control strategies to enhance occupant's comfort and building performance. However, in the literature, there is still a la...
supported in parts by the U.S.Defense Threat Reduction Agency and performed under U.S.Department of Energy Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Well-mixed zone models are often employed to compute indoor air quality and occupant exposures.While effective,a potential downside to assuming instantaneous,perfect mixing is underpredicting exposures to high intermi...
This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC3803201)。
Determining required sample size is one of the critical pathways to reproducible,reliable and robust results in human-related studies.This paper aims to answer a fundamental but often overlooked question:what sample s...
supported by the U.S.Department of Energy through the Building America program under award number DE-EE0008694.
Occupants are the core of the built environment.Traditional heating,ventilation,and air-conditioning(HVAC)systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy assumptions with no consideration of specific o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51908414);China National Key R&D Program during the 13th Five-year Plan Period(No.2017YFC0702200)。
Given the importance of recognizing indoor occupant’s location and activity intensity to the control of intelligent homes,exploring approaches that can detect occupants’location and activity types while protecting o...
The work is also supported by Ministry of Human Resource Development,Government of India under the MHRD-FAST Grant[14MHRD005];IRCC-IIT Bombay Fund,Grant No.[16IRCC561015]。
Rapid urbanization pressure and poverty have created a push for affordable housing within the global south.The design of affordable housing can have consequences on the thermal(dis)comfort and behaviour of the occupan...