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RESEARCH RESULTS INCLUDING PATENTS,
PUBLICATIONS, ETC.
Books
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, F.
Rodríguez and M. Berenguel, (2014). Comfort
control in buildings. Springer. Series: Advanced in Industrial
Control, 237 p. ISBN 978-1-4471-6346-6.
Book chapters
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M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, F. Rodríguez and M. Berenguel, (2014). A practical example of bioclimatic
architecture: The C-DdI-CIESOL-ARFRISOL building (in Spanish). In:
Automation for engineers (in Spanish), Paraninfo.
International peer-review journal publications (JCR index)
- M. Castilla, J. Bonilla, J.D.
Álvarez and F. Rodríguez, (2014). A room
simulation tool for thermal comfort control in a bioclimatic building: A real
example of use with an optimal controller. Optimal Control Applications and Methods (in
press). DOI: 10.1002/oca.2116. Impact Factor
1.535, 28/59, Q2
(Automation&Control systems).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, J.E.
Normey-Rico and F. Rodríguez, (2014). Thermal
comfort control using a non-linear MPC strategy: A real case of study in a
bioclimatic building. Journal
of process control, 28: 703–713. Impact Factor 2.179, 14/59, Q1
(Automation&Control systems).
- R. Mena, F.
Rodríguez, M. Castilla and M.R.
Arahal, (2014). A prediction model
based on neural networks for the energy consumption of a bioclimatic building. Energy and Buildings, 82: 142–155.
Impact Factor 2.465, 6/58, Q1 (Construction&Building technology).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez,
M.G. Ortega and M.R. Arahal, (2013). Neural
network and polynomial approximated thermal comfort models for HVAC systems. Building and Environment, 59: 107–115.
Impact Factor 2.700, 5/58, Q1 (Construction&Building technology).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez,
M. Berenguel, F. Rodríguez, J.L. Guzmán and M. Pérez, (2011). A comparison of thermal comfort predictive
control strategies. Energy
and Buildings, 43: 2737–2746. Impact factor 2.386, 6/56, Q1
(Construction&Building technology).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez,
M. Berenguel, M. Pérez, F. Rodríguez and J.L. Guzmán, (2010). Comfort control techniques in buildings (in
Spanish). Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial (RIAI), 7: 5–24. Impact factor 0.195, 56/60, Q4 (Automation&Control systems).
Communications to international conferences
- M. Castilla, R. Mena, J.D. Álvarez, F. Rodríguez and M. Pérez, (2014). A comparative analysis of room air
temperature modelling for control purposes. In:
International Conference on Solar Energy and Buildings (Eurosun), Aix-les-Bains
(France).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, J.E.
Normey-Rico, F. Rodríguez and M. Berenguel, (2013). A
multivariable nonlinear MPC control strategy for thermal comfort and indoor-air
quality. In: 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial
Electronics Society (IECON13), Vienna (Austria).
- J. Agüero, F.
Rodríguez, M. Castilla and M.
Pereira, (2013). Productiveness and Real Time prices
in energy management for HVAC systems. In: 39th
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON13), Vienna
(Austria).
- M.R. Arahal, M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez and J.A.
Sánchez, (2013). Subharmonic content
in finite-state model predictive current control of IM. In: 39th
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON13), Vienna
(Austria).
- R. Mena, F.
Rodríguez, M. Castilla and M.R.
Arahal (2013). A neural network
model for energy consumption prediction of CIESOL bioclimatic building. In: 8th
International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and
Environmental Applications (SOCO13), Salamanca (Spain).
- J.D. Álvarez, R.
Costa-Castelló, M. Castilla and E.F.
Camacho, (2013). Repetitive control
to counteract the effect of people on thermal comfort control. In:
European Control Conference (ECC13), Zürich (Switzerland).
- J. Agüero, F. Rodríguez, M.
Castilla and A. Giménez, (2013). Efficient
management of thermal load as a function of the Day-Ahead Price prediction (in
Spanish). In: 13th
Spanish-Portuguese Conference on Electrical Engineering (CHLIE), Valencia
(Spain).
- J. Salazar, M. Castilla, F. Rodríguez and F. Tadeo,
(2013). Minimization of
the operation costs of a solar/gas air-conditioning system using duration-based
predictive control. In: The Mediterranean Green Energy Forum
(MGEF13), Fez (Morocco).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, J.E.
Normey-Rico and F. Rodríguez, (2012). A
nonlinear model based predictive control strategy to maintain thermal comfort
inside a bioclimatic building. In: 20th IEEE Mediterranean
Conference on Control and Automation (MED12), Barcelona (Spain).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, M.
Berenguel, F. Rodríguez, J.L. Guzmán and M. Pérez, (2011). Thermal comfort predictive control
strategies for a solar energy research center. In: ISES Solar
World Congress, Kassel (Germany).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, M.
Berenguel, M. Pérez, J.L. Guzmán and F. Rodríguez, (2010). Comfort optimization in a solar energy research center. In: IFAC
Conference on Control Methodologies and Technologies for Energy Efficiency
(CMTEE 2010), Vilamoura, Portugal.
Communications to national conferences
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, J.E. Normey-Rico, F. Rodríguez and M. Berenguel, (2014).
Nonlinear predictive control of
thermal comfort and indoor air quality (in Spanish). In:
XXXV Spanish
Automatic Control Conference, Valencia (Spain).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, F. Rodríguez and M. Berenguel, (2012). Efficient comfort control in buildings (in
Spanish). In: X Simposio CEA de Ingeniería de Control, Barcelona
(Spain).
- F. Rodríguez, M. Castilla, J.A. Sánchez, A.
Pawlowski, A. Pérez and J. Agüero, (2012). Control
and supervision strategies for the integrated management of installations in
energy efficient environments (in Spanish). In: X Simposio CEA de Ingeniería de Control, Barcelona (Spain).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, M.
Berenguel, F. Rodríguez, J.L. Guzmán and M. Pérez, (2011). Thermal comfort predictive control for the
users of a bioclimatic building (in Spanish). In: XXXII Spanish Automatic Control
Conference, Sevilla (Spain).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, M.
Berenguel, M. Pérez, J.L. Guzmán, F. Rodríguez, J.A. Ferre and M. Pasamontes,
(2010). Thermal comfort parameters
analysis in the CDdI CIESOL of the ARFRISOL project (in Spanish). In: I Congreso sobre arquitectura bioclimática y frío solar (PSE-ARFRISOL),
Almería (Spain).
- J.A. Ferre, M.
Pasamontes, M. Castilla, M.
Berenguel, M.J. Jiménez, D. Bravo and M. Pérez. (2010). Development of a monitoring and control
system for bioclimatic buildings under the framework of the ARFRISOL project (in
Spanish). In: I Congreso sobre arquitectura bioclimática y frío
solar (PSE-ARFRISOL), Almería (Spain).
- M. Castilla, J.D. Álvarez, M.
Berenguel, M. Pérez, J.L. Guzmán and F. Rodríguez, (2009). Thermal comfort and setpoints analysis to
control in the ARFRISOL-CIESOL bioclimatic building at the University of
Almería (in Spanish). In: XXX Spanish Automatic Control Conference,
Valladolid (Spain).
- J.A. Ferre, M. Pasamontes, M.
Castilla, M.J. Jiménez and M. Pérez, (2009). Design,
implantation and working of a data acquisition system in the ARFRISOL-CIESOL
bioclimatic building at the University of Almería (in Spanish). In:
XXX Spanish
Automatic Control Conference, Valladolid (Spain).