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The Heat Pump and Its Controller Shared One Physics Kernel

A differentiable vapor-compression model unified equipment sizing, transient simulation and predictive control.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-22-013
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Summary

A differentiable vapor-compression model unified equipment sizing, transient simulation and predictive control.

The JAX framework uses the same compiled finite-volume physics for machine sizing, stiff transient integration and model-predictive control, avoiding a separate controller surrogate. Against open experimental benchmarks without parameter fitting, it reported 7.37 percent mean absolute percentage error for cooling capacity across 16 mini-split runs and 1.19–1.62 percent on-period cooling error on hardware-in-the-loop traces. Those validations do not by themselves establish field deployment readiness.

Why it matters

A differentiable vapor-compression model unified equipment sizing, transient simulation and predictive control.

Limits and context

  • Those validations do not by themselves establish field deployment readiness.

Key claims

  1. A differentiable vapor-compression model unified equipment sizing, transient simulation and predictive control.

    Qualification: Those validations do not by themselves establish field deployment readiness.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-22-013

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.19552arXiv · primary research

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