Zone temperature control with underfloor heating systems for residential buildings

This thesis presents the development of the model of a thermal zone, of a villa and of the underfloor heating radiant panels by using MATLAB environment to build up a simulink model based on parameters from a physical villa. Then we validate our created models by comparing the simulation results with the reference results from Edilclima, a software for the buildings energy consumption calculation. Different control strategies are adopted and tested to achieve both energy saving and to increase human comfort.