PSO-guided optimal estimator enabled regularized adaptive extended Kalman filter with unknown inputs for dynamic nonlinear indoor thermal state estimation

Abstract

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization-guided maximum likelihood estimation enabled (MLE) adaptive extended Kalman filter (EKF) with unknown inputs algorithm for estimating the dynamic nonlinear thermal states for an indoor heating ventilation and air conditioning system. The concept of MLE has been introduced to enhance the speed of convergence of the filtering parameters in adaptive EKF. The nonlinear indoor environment has been modelled employing equivalent RC network taking relative humidity into account. At the outset, an EKF-based method accommodating the unknown inputs and an adaptive estimator-based variant of it are developed for estimating the temperature of the walls of a laboratory-scale realistic environment. Subsequently the proposed scheme comes into play to deal with the scenarios associated with undesirable divergence and poor initialization utilizing the metaheuristically adapted optimal regularizer. The proposed technique outperforms the other contemporary state-of-the-art counterparts in terms of mean squared error.