Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking of Residential Energy Grids over Unreliable Communication Networks Using Predictive Control

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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In this article, we manage the energy consumption of numerous intelligent homes and charging stations including several electric vehicles in real-time using a computationally efficient predictive controller. The studied scenario is made up of a couple of primary layers. At the low level of the hierarchical framework, users are clustered into different groups based on their vehicles’ departure times. Meanwhile, the energy consumption of subordinate users is controlled by multiple aggregators, interaction among which is modeled as an aggregative game. The high-level interactive and distributed control problem can be solved by a predictive controller, wherein the terminal constraints related to the reference energy of each cluster’s storage capacity are transferred to the end of the prediction horizon. Additionally, each aggregator can only exchange local data with some neighboring aggregators through an untrustable communication network. As a result of denial of service attacks on the aggregators' network, the strong connectivity of the communication graph may be directly destroyed, leading to performance degradation. To address such an issue, each aggregator reconstructs the attacked information of its neighbors using a linear combination of received data in the last two iterations. Furthermore, a time-of-use pricing tariff whose value is small for faithful households is investigated so that convergence time remains unaltered. Practical examples are simulated to assess the usefulness of the proposed iterative algorithm.

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AUT Journal of Modeling and Simulation
Volume 55, Issue 1
June 2023
Pages 139-154

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