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Journal Articles

  1. Austin R. Coffman, Zhong Guo, and Prabir Barooah, "Characterizing capacity of flexible loads for providing grid support", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 36 (3), 2428-2437, Oct. 2020. Link
  2. Zhong Guo, Austin R. Coffman, Jeffrey Munk, Piljae Im, and Prabir Barooah, "Aggregation and data driven identification of building thermal dynamic model and unmeasured disturbance", Energy and Buildings 231, 110500, Jan. 2021. Link
  3. Naren Srivaths Raman, Rahul Umashankar Chaturvedi, Zhong Guo, and Prabir Barooah, "Model predictive control-based hierarchical control of a multi-zone commercial HVAC system", Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities 2 (2), 021005, May. 2021. Link
  4. Joseph Rosenberger, Zhong Guo, Austin Coffman, Duzgun Agdas, and Prabir Barooah, "An Open-Source Platform for Indoor Environment Monitoring with Participatory Comfort Sensing", Sensors 23 (1), 364, Dec. 2022. Link
  5. Zhong Guo, Aditya Chaudhari, Austin R. Coffman, and Prabir Barooah, "Optimal Control of District Cooling Energy Plant with Reinforcement Learning and MPC", ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (1-16), Nov. 2023. Link

Conference Papers

  1. Zhong Guo, Austin R. Coffman, Jeffrey Munk, Piljae Im, and Prabir Barooah, "Identification of aggregate building thermal dynamic model and unmeasured internal heat load from data", 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2958-2963, Nice, France, Dec. 2019. Link
  2. Austin R. Coffman, Zhong Guo, and Prabir Barooah, "Capacity of flexible loads for grid support: statistical characterization for long term planning", 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 533-538, Denvor, CO, USA, Jul. 2020. Link
  3. Zhong Guo, Austin R. Coffman, and Prabir Barooah, "Reinforcement learning for optimal control of a District Cooling Energy Plant", 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 533-538, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun. 2022. Link
  4. Zhong Guo and Prabir Barooah, "Reinforcement Learning Based Control of District Cooling Energy Plant with Thermal Storage", submitted to 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) . Link

Updated: Nov., 2023