Lagrangian Decomposition based Multi Agent Model Predictive Control for Electric Vehicles Charging integrating Real Time Pricing
For electric vehicle charging infrastructure operators, this work presents a distributed control method that coordinates individual vehicle agents with grid-level pricing to manage congestion.
This paper proposes a real-time distributed control strategy for electric vehicle charging that balances driver and grid needs using model predictive control and Lagrangian decomposition. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach and coherence between charging load curves and energy prices.
This paper presents a real time distributed control strategy for electric vehicles charging covering both drivers and grid players' needs. Computation of the charging load curve is performed by agents working at the level of each single vehicle, with the information exchanged with grid players being restricted to the chosen load curve and energy price feedback from the market, elaborated according to the charging infrastructure congestion. The distributed control mechanism is based on model predictive control methodology and Lagrangian decomposition of the optimization control problem at its basis. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed distributed approach and the mutual coherence between the computed charging load curves and the resulting energy price over the time.