@inproceedings{569ab42c35dd406290789d690e2b3aa5,
title = "Decentralized charging control for large populations of plug-in electric vehicles",
abstract = "The paper develops a novel decentralized charging control strategy for large populations of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). We consider the situation where PEV agents are rational and weakly coupled via their operation costs. At an established Nash equilibrium, each of the PEV agents reacts optimally with respect to the average charging strategy of all the PEV agents. Each of the average charging strategies can be approximated by an infinite population limit which is the solution of a fixed point problem. The control objective is to minimize electricity generation costs by establishing a PEV charging schedule that fills the overnight demand valley. The paper shows that under certain mild conditions, there exists a unique Nash equilibrium that almost satisfies that goal. Moreover, the paper establishes a sufficient condition under which the system converges to the unique Nash equilibrium. The theoretical results are illustrated through various numerical examples.",
keywords = "'Valley-filling' charging strategy, Decentralized control, Nash equilibrium, Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)",
author = "Zhongjing Ma and Duncan Callaway and Ian Hiskens",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1109/CDC.2010.5717547",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424477456",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "206--212",
booktitle = "2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010",
address = "United States",
note = "49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010 ; Conference date: 15-12-2010 Through 17-12-2010",
}