BOODI Abhinandana

Research team

Engineering and Numerical Tools

Research themes

• Building simulation and performance analysis
• Occuapancy modeling
• Building energy and comfort management
• Intelligent Buildings

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Educational activities

• Disciplines  : Thermodynamics, Thermal Engineeering, Electrical Circuits, Analog and Digital Electronics, Applied Mathematics
• Level  : Engineers 1st and 2nd year, masters

PhD supervision

• Chinmayi Kanthila, “Towards a global, systemic approach for a sustainable, intelligent and energy autonomous building”, UBO/UMR CNRS 6027 IRDL – CESI/LINEACT, Defense date: September 20, 2024.
• Khalil Al Sayed, “Self-aware intelligent Building Energy Management System (iBEMS) for energy-efficient smart buildings: In semi-automated and fully automated scenarios”, defense planned in 2025.
  
• Geoffrey Bourgoin, “Towards modeling the impact of occupancy on the energy behavior of intelligent buildings”, defense planned in 2026.
• Ramzi Kecir, “Towards a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Energy-Autonomous Nanogrid Buildings: A Holistic Systemic Multi-Objective Optimization Approach”, CESI LINEACT – UBO/UMR CNRS 6027 IRDL, defense planned in 2027.
• Arthur Lecras, “Improving the Quality of Indoor Environments in Intelligent Buildings: Application to the Prediction and Control of Air Pollution in Healthcare Facilities Using Artificial Intelligence”, CESI LINEACT – SQLI (CIFRE), defense planned in 2027.

Scientific animation

• Member of CESI LINEACT,
• Member of IRDL, 2017 – 2021

Publications

Synthesis (2018-2024)

• ACL : 6
• C-ACTI : 8

Selected publications

• Al Sayed, K., Boodi, A., Broujeny, R. S., & Beddiar, K. (2024). Reinforcement learning for HVAC control in intelligent buildings: A technical and conceptual review. Journal of Building Engineering, 110085. DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2024.110085
• Kanthila, C., Boodi, A., Marszal-Pomianowska, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2024). Enhanced multi-horizon occupancy prediction in smart buildings using cascaded Bi-LSTM models with integrated features. Energy and Buildings, 114442. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114442
• Kanthila, C., Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2021). Building occupancy behavior and prediction methods: A critical review and challenging locks. IEEE Access, 9, 79353–79372. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3083534
• Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2022). Building thermal-network models: A comparative analysis, recommendations, and perspectives. Energies, 15(4), 1328. DOI: 10.3390/en15041328
• Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2020). Simplified building thermal model development and parameters evaluation using a stochastic approach. Energies, 13(11), 2899. DOI: 10.3390/en13112899
• Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Benamour, M., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2018). Intelligent systems for building energy and occupant comfort optimization: A state of the art review and recommendations. Energies, 11(10), 2604. DOI: 10.3390/en11102604
• Micheneau, K., & Boodi, A. (2024, June). Optimizing comfort and energy efficiency: The impact of model accuracy on multi-objective MPC. In 2024 6th Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM) (pp. 659-664). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/GPECOM61896.2024.10582746
• Kanthila, C., Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2023, October). Occupancy prediction in buildings using cascaded LSTM model. In IECON 2023-49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10311629
• Al Sayed, K., Boodi, A., Broujeny, R. S., & Beddiar, K. (2023, October). Reinforcement learning for optimal HVAC control: From theory to real-world applications. In IECON 2023-49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312131
• Soufi, A., & Boodi, A. (2023, September). Investigation of input feature combinations considering occupant behavior for modeling indoor air temperature in a classroom. In BS 2023 (Vol. 18, No. 2522-2708).
• Boodi, A., Beddiar, K., Amirat, Y., & Benbouzid, M. (2019, October). Model predictive control-based thermal comfort and energy optimization. In IECON 2019-45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (Vol. 1, pp. 5801-5806). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927227