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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Jingguan, Ai, Xiaomeng, Chen, Cong, Li, Shaoze, Cui, Shichang, Fang, Jiakun, Wen, Jinyu
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13836
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author Liu, Jingguan
Ai, Xiaomeng
Chen, Cong
Li, Shaoze
Cui, Shichang
Fang, Jiakun
Wen, Jinyu
author_facet Liu, Jingguan
Ai, Xiaomeng
Chen, Cong
Li, Shaoze
Cui, Shichang
Fang, Jiakun
Wen, Jinyu
contents Aggregating building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) fleets provides substantial real-time flexibility to power system operations. However, real-time aggregation of multi-zone HVAC fleets faces two key challenges: (i) strong coupling across zones and time makes flexibility characterization high-dimensional and computationally demanding, and (ii) the sequential revelation of temperature states and exogenous conditions requires that decisions made at each period preserve feasibility over the remaining horizon using only currently realized information. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a reachable-set decomposition framework comprising an offline decomposition stage and a real-time policy. In the offline stage, backward reachable sets are formulated to encode remaining-horizon feasibility into per-period state constraints, so that any state within the current reachable set is guaranteed to sustain feasible operation over the entire remaining horizon. A tailored inner approximation is then developed for tractable calculation in multi-zone-coupled HVAC settings. In the real-time stage, aggregate flexibility is computed efficiently via building-level parallel linear programs followed by closed-form Minkowski summation of power intervals, and any regulation signal within the reported flexibility interval admits a recursively feasible disaggregation. Case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework in aggregate flexibility characterization, disaggregation feasibility, and scalable computation.
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spellingShingle Reachable-Set Decomposition for Real-Time Aggregation of Multi-Zone HVAC Fleets
Liu, Jingguan
Ai, Xiaomeng
Chen, Cong
Li, Shaoze
Cui, Shichang
Fang, Jiakun
Wen, Jinyu
Systems and Control
Aggregating building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) fleets provides substantial real-time flexibility to power system operations. However, real-time aggregation of multi-zone HVAC fleets faces two key challenges: (i) strong coupling across zones and time makes flexibility characterization high-dimensional and computationally demanding, and (ii) the sequential revelation of temperature states and exogenous conditions requires that decisions made at each period preserve feasibility over the remaining horizon using only currently realized information. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a reachable-set decomposition framework comprising an offline decomposition stage and a real-time policy. In the offline stage, backward reachable sets are formulated to encode remaining-horizon feasibility into per-period state constraints, so that any state within the current reachable set is guaranteed to sustain feasible operation over the entire remaining horizon. A tailored inner approximation is then developed for tractable calculation in multi-zone-coupled HVAC settings. In the real-time stage, aggregate flexibility is computed efficiently via building-level parallel linear programs followed by closed-form Minkowski summation of power intervals, and any regulation signal within the reported flexibility interval admits a recursively feasible disaggregation. Case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework in aggregate flexibility characterization, disaggregation feasibility, and scalable computation.
title Reachable-Set Decomposition for Real-Time Aggregation of Multi-Zone HVAC Fleets
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13836