Air conditioner and control method thereof

Abstract

An air conditioner including at least one outdoor unit including a compressor configured to compress refrigerant, a plurality of indoor units connected to the at least one outdoor unit through a refrigerant pipe, the refrigerant pipe being configured to allow the refrigerant to pass therethrough, a sensor unit including a plurality of sensors, and a processor configured to perform reinforcement learning including state, action, and reward to observe indoor units of the plurality of indoor units arranged in a same space, and perform the reinforcement learning based on indoor unit-specific data collected by the sensor unit at a site where the plurality of indoor units is located.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.