A multi-agent system for distribution grid congestion management with electric vehicles

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-58

  Hu, Junjie ^a   Saleem, Arshad ^b   You, Shi ^a   Nordström, Lars ^b   Lind, Morten ^a   Ostergaard, Jacob ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Congestion management; Distribution grid; Electric vehicles; Multi agent system; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); COMMERCE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENERGY RESOURCES; FLEET OPERATIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATLAB; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; VEHICLE-TO-GRID;

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; COORDINATION BEHAVIOR; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTION GRID; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); HIERARCHICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; TWO-LEVEL HIERARCHICAL CONTROLS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84916634070     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2014.10.017     Document Type: Article

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