Fuzzy Adaptive PID Control of Indoor Temperature in VAV System

VAV (VAV) air-conditioning systems always have the characteristics of nonlinear, strong coupling, large time delay, thus the conventional PID control method can't meet the requirement of control performance. In order to adapt to the changes of the load in air-conditioning systems, and make an accurate rapid response, this paper proposes a fuzzy adaptive PID control method. The temperature control by terminal air valves in VAV air-conditioning systems was selected as a control object, through collecting the deviation between setting value and room temperature, the parameters of the PID controller were selected to realize the accurate control of the temperature. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed control method, it was compared with conventional PID control method by simulation experiment, the results show that the proposed Fuzzy adaptive PID control method has more shorter setting time, less overshoot and more steady state performance than the latter.