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Retraining surrogate models in increasingly restricted design spaces: a novel building energy model calibration method
Surrogate (i.e. meta) models can approximate building energy models (BEMs) accurately and quickly, hence they have been widely used in BEM calibration studies. Typically, the surrogate models are trained a single time over the entire unknown building parameter space with a design such as Latin hypercube sampling. In this article, a multiple polynomial regression surrogate model is, instead, retrained with increasingly restricted designs. In each training repetition, the bounds of the design narrow around the unknown building parameter values that minimize the error between the surrogate model’s predictions and the measured energy. This ‘cascading surrogate’ calibration method finds CVRMSE values that are much lower than those of a powerful black box optimizer in a case study with simulated ‘measured’ data. However, the method has similar performance to the black box optimizer in a case study with real hourly measured energy, probably since the BEM was not configured accurately enough.
Retraining surrogate models in increasingly restricted design spaces: a novel building energy model calibration method
Surrogate (i.e. meta) models can approximate building energy models (BEMs) accurately and quickly, hence they have been widely used in BEM calibration studies. Typically, the surrogate models are trained a single time over the entire unknown building parameter space with a design such as Latin hypercube sampling. In this article, a multiple polynomial regression surrogate model is, instead, retrained with increasingly restricted designs. In each training repetition, the bounds of the design narrow around the unknown building parameter values that minimize the error between the surrogate model’s predictions and the measured energy. This ‘cascading surrogate’ calibration method finds CVRMSE values that are much lower than those of a powerful black box optimizer in a case study with simulated ‘measured’ data. However, the method has similar performance to the black box optimizer in a case study with real hourly measured energy, probably since the BEM was not configured accurately enough.
Retraining surrogate models in increasingly restricted design spaces: a novel building energy model calibration method
Herbinger, Florent (author) / Kummert, Michaël (author)
Journal of Building Performance Simulation ; 17 ; 527-544
2024-09-02
18 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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