Daniel Bayer - Lehrstuhl für Informatik III

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Daniel Bayer arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei der Professur für Informatik (Modellierung und Simulation). Er studierte zunächst Mathematik mit dem Abschluss Bachelor of Science, danach Informatik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Seine Tätigkeit fokussiert sich auf die Bearbeitung des Forschungsprojektes von DigiSWM. Hierbei ist eines der zentralen Ziele, dass umfangreiche Energiedaten mit KI-Verfahren kombiniert werden, um neue Energiedienstleistungen zu simulieren und zu evaluieren.

Die Forschungsinteressen fokussieren sich ins Besondere auf folgende Themen:

Datengetriebene oder agentenbasierte Simulationen, vor allem im Energie- & Gebäudesektor
Datenanalyse von Zeitreihen
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Sustainable Computing

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2022[ to top ]

Bayer, D., Pruckner, M.: Enhancing the Performance of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Controlling HVAC Systems. 2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech). pp. 187–194 (2022).
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Systems for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings are traditionally controlled by a rule-based approach. In order to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact of HVAC systems more advanced control methods such as reinforcement learning are promising. Reinforcement learning (RL) strategies offer a good alternative, as user feedback can be integrated more easily and presence can also be incorporated. Moreover, multi-agent RL approaches scale well and can be generalized. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent RL framework based on existing work that learns reducing on one hand energy consumption by optimizing HVAC control and on the other hand user feedback by occupants about uncomfortable room temperatures. Second, we show how to reduce training time required for proper RL-agent-training by using parameter sharing between the multiple agents and apply different pretraining techniques. Results show that our framework is capable of reducing the energy by around 6% when controlling a complete building or 8% for a single room zone. The occupants complaints are acceptable or even better compared to a rule-based baseline. Additionally, our performance analysis show that the training time can be drastically reduced by using parameter sharing.

@inproceedings{9794179, abstract = {Systems for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings are traditionally controlled by a rule-based approach. In order to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact of HVAC systems more advanced control methods such as reinforcement learning are promising. Reinforcement learning (RL) strategies offer a good alternative, as user feedback can be integrated more easily and presence can also be incorporated. Moreover, multi-agent RL approaches scale well and can be generalized. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent RL framework based on existing work that learns reducing on one hand energy consumption by optimizing HVAC control and on the other hand user feedback by occupants about uncomfortable room temperatures. Second, we show how to reduce training time required for proper RL-agent-training by using parameter sharing between the multiple agents and apply different pretraining techniques. Results show that our framework is capable of reducing the energy by around 6% when controlling a complete building or 8% for a single room zone. The occupants complaints are acceptable or even better compared to a rule-based baseline. Additionally, our performance analysis show that the training time can be drastically reduced by using parameter sharing.}, author = {Bayer, Daniel and Pruckner, Marco}, booktitle = {2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)}, keywords = {pruckner}, month = {April}, pages = {187-194}, title = {Enhancing the Performance of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Controlling HVAC Systems}, year = 2022 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 9794179 %A Bayer, Daniel %A Pruckner, Marco %B 2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) %D 2022 %P 187-194 %R 10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794179 %T Enhancing the Performance of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Controlling HVAC Systems %U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9794179/ %X Systems for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings are traditionally controlled by a rule-based approach. In order to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact of HVAC systems more advanced control methods such as reinforcement learning are promising. Reinforcement learning (RL) strategies offer a good alternative, as user feedback can be integrated more easily and presence can also be incorporated. Moreover, multi-agent RL approaches scale well and can be generalized. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent RL framework based on existing work that learns reducing on one hand energy consumption by optimizing HVAC control and on the other hand user feedback by occupants about uncomfortable room temperatures. Second, we show how to reduce training time required for proper RL-agent-training by using parameter sharing between the multiple agents and apply different pretraining techniques. Results show that our framework is capable of reducing the energy by around 6% when controlling a complete building or 8% for a single room zone. The occupants complaints are acceptable or even better compared to a rule-based baseline. Additionally, our performance analysis show that the training time can be drastically reduced by using parameter sharing.

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