Bed Prakash Das;Kaushik Das Sharma;Amitava Chatterjee;Jitendra Nath Bera
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Abstract
Estimating unknown inputs in indoor heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVac) systems, particularly under the influence of diverse environmental constraints and time-varying relative humidity, presents a significant challenge. A viable solution is to use a weighted least-squares (WLS) approach for estimating unknown inputs, which uses an unbiased minimum variance (UMV) estimator in conjunction with an unscented Kalman filter (UKF)-based nonlinear filtering technique. This allows for the simultaneous estimation of the system’s state and the unknown inputs. To accurately represent the real-life nonlinear thermal profile influenced by these uncertain inputs, it is essential to adopt an RC network-based mathematical modeling approach that captures the system’s dynamic behavior over time. The integration of the UMV-based optimal estimator with the UKF culminates in the proposed UKF with UMV for unknown inputs (UKF-UMV-UI) estimation algorithm. Extensive experimentation with the proposed UKF-UMV-UI algorithm has been conducted in a laboratory-scale realistic environment, dealing with uncertain and challenging unknown inputs. The results of the investigation indicate that the proposed method outperforms the UKF with unknown input (UKF-UI) by 41.64% and 35.85% in cumulative mean squared error (CuMSE) for two distinct measurement conditions, respectively.
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