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| AUTHOR: |
Sachin Kamboj and Willett Kempton and Keith S. Decker
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| TITLE: |
Deploying Power Grid-Integrated Electric Vehicles as a Multi-Agent System
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| ABSTRACT: |
Grid-Integrated Vehicles (GIVs) are plug-in Electric
Drive Vehicles (EDVs) with power-management and
other controls that allow them to respond to
external commands sent by power-grid operators, or
their affiliates, when parked and plugged-in to the
grid. At a bare minimum, such GIVs should respond to
demand-management commands or pricing signals to
delay, reduce or switch-off the rate of charging
when the demand for electricity is high. In more
advanced cases, these GIVs might sell both power and
storage capacity back to the grid in any of the
several electric power markets --- a concept known
as Vehicle-to-Grid power or V2G power. Although individual EDVs control too little power to sell in the market at an individual level, a large group of EDVs may form an aggregate or coalition that controls enough power to meaningfully sell, at a profit, in these markets. The profits made by such a coalition can then be used by the coalition members to offset the costs of the electric vehicles and batteries themselves. In this paper we describe an implemented and deployed multi-agent system that is used to integrate EDVs into the electricity grid managed by PJM, the largest transmission service operator in the world. We provide a brief introduction to GIVs and the various power markets and discuss why multi-agent systems are a good match for this application. |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Coalition formation, Vehicle-To-Grid, Grid-Integrated-Vehicle, Power Regulation
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| PUBLICATION: |
To appear in Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011)
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| DATE: |
May, 2011
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| SOURCES: |
PDF: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~kamboj/pubs/kamboj.aamas.11.pdf
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| BIBTEX: |
@article{kamboj.aamas.11, Title = {Deploying Power Grid-Integrated Electric Vehicles as a Multi-Agent System}, Author = {Sachin Kamboj and Willett Kempton and Keith S. Decker}, Month = {May}, Year = {2011}, Keywords = {Coalition formation, Vehicle-To-Grid, Grid-Integrated-Vehicle, Power Regulation}, Journal = {To appear in Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011)}, } |
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