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Online mechanism design for vehicle-to-grid car parks

Online mechanism design for vehicle-to-grid car parks
Online mechanism design for vehicle-to-grid car parks
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a promising approach whereby electric vehicles (EVs) are used to store excess electricity supply (e.g., from renewable sources), which is sold back to the grid in times of scarcity. In this paper we consider the setting of a smart car park, where EVs come and go, and can be used for V2G while parked. We develop novel allocation and payment mechanisms which truthfully elicit the EV owners' preferences and constraints, including arrival, departure, required charge, as well as the costs of discharging due to loss of efficiency of the battery. The car park will schedule the charging and discharging of each EV, ensuring the constraints of the EVs are met, and taking into consideration predictions about future electricity prices. Optimally solving the global problem is intractable, and we present three novel heuristic online scheduling algorithms. We show that, under certain conditions, two of these satisfy monotonicity and are therefore truthful. We furthermore evaluate the algorithms using simulations, and we show that some of our algorithms benefit significantly from V2G, achieving positive benefit for the car park even when agents do not pay for using it.
286-293
Association for Computing Machinery
Gerding, Enrico
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Stein, Sebastian
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Ceppi, Sofia
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Robu, Valentin
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Gerding, Enrico
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Stein, Sebastian
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Ceppi, Sofia
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Robu, Valentin
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Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Ceppi, Sofia and Robu, Valentin (2016) Online mechanism design for vehicle-to-grid car parks. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16). Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 286-293 .

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Abstract

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a promising approach whereby electric vehicles (EVs) are used to store excess electricity supply (e.g., from renewable sources), which is sold back to the grid in times of scarcity. In this paper we consider the setting of a smart car park, where EVs come and go, and can be used for V2G while parked. We develop novel allocation and payment mechanisms which truthfully elicit the EV owners' preferences and constraints, including arrival, departure, required charge, as well as the costs of discharging due to loss of efficiency of the battery. The car park will schedule the charging and discharging of each EV, ensuring the constraints of the EVs are met, and taking into consideration predictions about future electricity prices. Optimally solving the global problem is intractable, and we present three novel heuristic online scheduling algorithms. We show that, under certain conditions, two of these satisfy monotonicity and are therefore truthful. We furthermore evaluate the algorithms using simulations, and we show that some of our algorithms benefit significantly from V2G, achieving positive benefit for the car park even when agents do not pay for using it.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 April 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 July 2016
Published date: 9 July 2016
Venue - Dates: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), New York, New York, United States, 2016-07-09 - 2016-07-15
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 393722
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/393722
PURE UUID: 702f8bff-e0c6-4bdb-ab69-7cfc3f692546
ORCID for Enrico Gerding: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7200-552X
ORCID for Sebastian Stein: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-8857

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Date deposited: 02 May 2016 04:13
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:57

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Author: Enrico Gerding ORCID iD
Author: Sebastian Stein ORCID iD
Author: Sofia Ceppi
Author: Valentin Robu

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