AI+Building Energy Modeling: IBPSA SimBuild 2024 Notes

Notes from attending the SimBuild conference, especially sessions on data science and modeling.

Drone physics

Equations governing dynamics and control of a multirotor UAV

Modern control: State space equations

An introduction to state-space modeling in modern control theory: representing systems via input, output, and internal state variables.

Modern control: Solutions & state transition matrices

Solving the linear time-invariant state equation using the state transition matrix, and what it means physically.

Classical control: Transfer functions

How to derive and use transfer functions to relate a system's input and output in the Laplace domain, illustrated with a car example.

Classical control: Transforms

An introduction to integral transforms in classical control theory: representing time-domain functions in a more tractable domain.

Control Systems: Overview

A primer for classical control theory.

A Poor Man's Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

A beginner-friendly introduction to reinforcement learning: how agents learn from feedback instead of search or hand-coded rules.

A case study in choosing algorithms

A lesson from parallelizing terabytes of dark matter simulation data: why a dynamic work pool beat a bin-packing pre-partitioning scheme.