Agents Cut Emissions – On how a Multi-Agent System Contributes to a more Sustainable Energy Consumption (Won the Best Paper Award)

Abstract

The Vehicle-to-Grid technology allows electric vehicles to not only procure electric energy, but also to feed energy back into the grid network. However, by using Vehicle-to-Grid, energy literally degenerates into an article of merchandise and becomes of interest to several stakeholders. In this paper, we describe a multi-agent system, which embraces this exact view and maximises the interest of several stakeholders in using Vehicle-to-Grid capable electric vehicles. In order to emphasise the applicability of our approach we performed a field test with real electric vehicles and charging stations. We describe both, implementational details as well as the results of our field test in this paper.

@ARTICLE{Keiser2012Agents,
  author = {Jan Keiser and Marco L"{u}tzenberger and Nils Masuch},
  title = {Agents Cut Emissions -- {O}n how a Multi-Agent System Contributes
	to a more Sustainable Energy Consumption},
  journal = {Procedia Computer Science},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {866--873},
  number = {0},
  month = {August},
  abstract = {The Vehicle-to-Grid technology allows electric vehicles to not only
	procure electric energy, but also to feed energy back into the grid
	network. However, by using Vehicle-to-Grid, energy literally degenerates
	into an article of merchandise and becomes of interest to several
	stakeholders. In this paper, we describe a multi-agent system, which
	embraces this exact view and maximises the interest of several stakeholders
	in using Vehicle-to-Grid capable electric vehicles. In order to emphasise
	the applicability of our approach we performed a field test with
	real electric vehicles and charging stations. We describe both, implementational
	details as well as the results of our field test in this paper.},
  doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.113}
}
Authors:
Jan Keiser, Marco Lützenberger, Nils Masuch
Category:
Journal
Year:
2012
Location:
Procedia Computer Science, 10(0):866-873, August