用主动学习提升热能系统数字孪生的精度与效率。
Physics-based Digital Twins for Integrated Thermal Energy Systems Using Active Learning

- 结合物理模型与四种简化代理模型,通过主动学习选取关键数据轨迹
- 仅需随机采样五分之一的数据量,即可达到相近预测精度
- 适合需要高精度、低延迟且可解释性热能系统控制的研究者
实时热能分配系统的监督控制需要准确、可解释且具备不确定性感知能力的数字孪生,同时保持数据与计算高效。单纯高保真仿真成本高昂,纯数据驱动代理模型则常缺乏鲁棒性。本文提出一种主动学习(AL)框架,将系统级Modelica仿真与四种更简单的物理信息驱动及数据驱动代理模型相结合:确定性稀疏非线性动力学识别带控制(SINDyC)、其概率多变量高斯扩展(MvG-SINDyC)、前馈神经网络(FNN)和门控循环单元(GRU)网络。针对每种代理模型设计特定的主动学习查询策略,包括对MvG-SINDyC在系数空间使用马氏距离采样,对SINDyC、FNN和GRU在预测空间基于误差采样,从而优先选择动态信息丰富的轨迹。该方法在爱达荷国家实验室热能分配系统(TEDS)中的乙二醇换热器(GHX)子系统上验证。在关键输出变量——旁路质量流量\dot{m}_{\mathrm{GHX}}与传热量Q_{\mathrm{GHX}}上,相比随机采样,所提框架仅需约五分之一的仿真轨迹即达到相当预测精度。评估中,GRU表现最佳预测保真度,而SINDyC最具计算效率与可解释性。概率型MvG-SINDyC进一步支持不确定性量化,并在主动学习下展现出最大计算增益。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-time supervisory control of thermal energy distribution systems requires digital twins that are accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware, yet remain data and computationally efficient. High-fidelity simulations alone are costly, while purely data-driven surrogates often lack robustness. To address these challenges, this work proposes an active learning (AL) framework that couples system-level Modelica simulations with four simpler physics-informed and data-driven surrogate modeling approaches: deterministic Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics with Control (SINDyC), its probabilistic multivariate-Gaussian extension (MvG-SINDyC), feedforward neural network (FNN), and gated recurrent unit (GRU) network. Tailored to each surrogate, model-specific AL query strategies are employed, including Mahalanobis-distance sampling in coefficient space for MvG-SINDyC and error-based sampling in prediction space for SINDyC, FNN, and GRU, allowing the learning process to prioritize dynamically informative trajectories. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the glycol heat exchanger (GHX) subsystem of the Thermal Energy Distribution System (TEDS) at Idaho National Laboratory. Across key GHX outputs--the bypass mass flow rate $\dot{m}_{\mathrm{GHX}}$ and heat transfer rate $Q_{\mathrm{GHX}}$-the AL framework achieves comparable predictive accuracy using as few as one-fifth of the simulation trajectories required by random sampling. Among the evaluated surrogates, the GRU achieves the highest predictive fidelity, while SINDyC remains the most computationally efficient and interpretable. The probabilistic MvG-SINDyC surrogate further enables uncertainty quantification and exhibits the largest computational gains under AL.
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