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Congestion management for urban EV charging systems

Congestion management for urban EV charging systems
Congestion management for urban EV charging systems
We consider the problem of managing Electric Vehicle (EV) charging at charging points in a city to ensure that the load on the charging points remains within the desired limits while minimizing the inconvenience to EV owners. We develop solutions that treat charging points and EV users as self-interested agents that aim to maximize their profit and minimize the impact on their schedule. In particular, we propose variants of a decentralised and dynamic approach as well as an optimal centralised static approach. We evaluated these solutions in a real setting based on the road network and the location of parking garages of a UK city and show that the optimal centralised (non-dynamic) solution manages the congestion the best but does not scale well, while the decentralised solutions scale to thousands of agents.
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Rigas, Emmanouil
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali
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Rigas, Emmanouil
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Rigas, Emmanouil, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Bassiliades, Nick and Koutitas, Georgios (2013) Congestion management for urban EV charging systems. 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Vancouver, Canada. 21 - 24 Oct 2013. 6 pp .

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Abstract

We consider the problem of managing Electric Vehicle (EV) charging at charging points in a city to ensure that the load on the charging points remains within the desired limits while minimizing the inconvenience to EV owners. We develop solutions that treat charging points and EV users as self-interested agents that aim to maximize their profit and minimize the impact on their schedule. In particular, we propose variants of a decentralised and dynamic approach as well as an optimal centralised static approach. We evaluated these solutions in a real setting based on the road network and the location of parking garages of a UK city and show that the optimal centralised (non-dynamic) solution manages the congestion the best but does not scale well, while the decentralised solutions scale to thousands of agents.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 22 October 2013
Venue - Dates: 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Vancouver, Canada, 2013-10-21 - 2013-10-24
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 356081
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/356081
ISBN: 978-1-4799-1526-2
PURE UUID: 46b3fa95-a91d-4584-959c-49a81b5415cc
ORCID for Sarvapali Ramchurn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9686-4302

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Date deposited: 16 Sep 2013 12:15
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:22

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Author: Emmanouil Rigas
Author: Sarvapali Ramchurn ORCID iD
Author: Nick Bassiliades
Author: Georgios Koutitas

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