Distributed control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on a smart grid

Author

Bordeau, K. ; Parker, G. ; Vosters, G. ; Weaver, W. ; Kelly, J. ; Wilson, D.G. ; Robinett, R.D., III

Author_Institution

Michigan Technol. Univ., Houghton, MI, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

1412

Lastpage

1416

Abstract

This paper explores the effect of a distributed control system for the charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles utilizing an agent-based approach in a smart grid. The vehicles are regarded as additional loads in addition to a primary forecasted load and use information transfer with the grid to make their charging decisions. MATLAB was used as the simulation tool to design the control strategy and simulate its effect on a power grid. The findings of this study are that the charging behavior and peak loads on the grid can be reduced by use of this distributed control strategy.

Keywords

control engineering computing; distributed control; hybrid electric vehicles; load forecasting; multi-agent systems; power system control; smart power grids; Matlab; agent-based approach; charging decisions; control strategy design; distributed control system; load forecasting; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; smart grid; Distributed control; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Load modeling; Smart grids; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1299-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPEEDAM.2012.6264641

Filename

6264641