TY - JOUR
T1 - Weak Control Approach to Consumer-Preferred Energy Management
AU - Shibasaki, Suzuna
AU - Inoue, Masaki
AU - Arahata, Mitsuru
AU - Gupta, Vijay
N1 - Funding Information:
The renewable energy has gained much importance in reThe renewable energy has gained much importance in recent years due to its benefits of reducing power generation cent years due to its benefits of reducing power generation costs and carbon emission levels. To fully receive such costs and carbon emission levels. To fully receive such benefits, the drawbacks of the renewable energy must be overcome. For example, solar power or wind power gen-benefits, the drawbacks of the renewable energy must be eration fluctuates uncertainly depending on the weather condition. The fluctuation may cause the power demand-eration fluctuates uncertainly depending on the weather supply imbalance and lead the blackout in the worst case. condition. The fluctuation may cause the power demand-Energy management technologies of balancing the demand and supply must be further developed. Energy management technologies of balancing the demand One of the highly potential technologies is demand side management (DSM) (see e.g., the works by Strbac (2008), One of the highly potential technologies is demand side Palensky and Dietrich (2011), Logenthiran et al. (2012), Khalid et al. (2018)). DSM includes not only the direct Palensky and Dietrich (2011), Logenthiran et al. (2012), management of mechatronic devices, but also indirect one using demand response (DR) of consumers. In DR, management of mechatronic devices, but also indirect dynamic pricing, incentives, and other control methods promote consumers to change their power-usage based dynamic pricing, incentives, and other control methods on their preference. Such DR methods are under intense promote consumers to change their power-usage based investigation in various research fields in the works by on their preference. Such DR methods are under intense e.g., Albadi and El-Saadany (2008), Mohsenian-Rad et al. (2010), Caron and Kesidis (2010), Siano (2014), Qureshi e.g., Albadi and El-Saadany (2008), Mohsenian-Rad et al. ★★(2010), Caron and Kesidis (2010), Siano (2014), Qureshi This work was supported by CREST through JST under Grant JPMJCR15K1 and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), G★rant JPMJCR15K1 and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), NoT. h1i7sK1w4o7r0k4 wfraosm sJuSpPpSo.rtSe.dShbiybasCaRkiEaSnTd Mth.roInuoguhe JcoSnTtribuuntdeedr No. 17K14704 from JSPS. S. Shibasaki and M. Inoue contributed eqruaanltlyJtPoMthJiCs Rw1o5rKk.1 and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), equally to this work. No. 17K14704 from JSPS. S. Shibasaki and M. Inoue contributed equally to this work.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper is devoted to a consumer-preferred community-level energy management system (CEMS), in which a system manager allows consumers their selfish decisions of power-saving while regulating the overall demand-supply imbalance. The key structure of the system is to weakly control consumers: the controller sends the allowable range of the power-saving amount to each consumer, which is modeled by a set-valued control signal. Then, the consumers decide the amount in the range based on their private preference. In this paper, we address the design problem of the controller that generates the set-valued control signals. The controller structure is based on internal model control, which plays the essential role of guaranteeing the consumer-independent stability and the worst-case control performance of the overall CEMS. Finally, a numerical experiment of the consumer-preferred CEMS is performed to demonstrate the design procedure of the controller and to show its effectiveness.
AB - This paper is devoted to a consumer-preferred community-level energy management system (CEMS), in which a system manager allows consumers their selfish decisions of power-saving while regulating the overall demand-supply imbalance. The key structure of the system is to weakly control consumers: the controller sends the allowable range of the power-saving amount to each consumer, which is modeled by a set-valued control signal. Then, the consumers decide the amount in the range based on their private preference. In this paper, we address the design problem of the controller that generates the set-valued control signals. The controller structure is based on internal model control, which plays the essential role of guaranteeing the consumer-independent stability and the worst-case control performance of the overall CEMS. Finally, a numerical experiment of the consumer-preferred CEMS is performed to demonstrate the design procedure of the controller and to show its effectiveness.
KW - Energy management system
KW - Human-in-the-loop system
KW - Internal model control
KW - Multi-objective control
KW - Robust control
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1616
DO - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1616
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85119351152
SN - 2405-8963
VL - 53
SP - 17083
EP - 17088
JO - IFAC-PapersOnLine
JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine
IS - 2
T2 - 21st IFAC World Congress 2020
Y2 - 12 July 2020 through 17 July 2020
ER -