Integrating Electric Vehicles into Smart Grid Infrastructures – A Simulation-Based Approach that became Reality
Abstract
The development of software that controls real life processes can be highly difficult and error prone. In the case that the destination test-bed does not fully exist, the situation becomes significantly more challenging. We developed a control software for charging processes of an electric vehicle fleet in a smart grid architecture. To accelerate the development and to ease the integration process, we used an agent-based approach and embedded the optimization software within a simulation environment. Later we enhanced this simulation environment to a consulting tool which can be used to assess the impact of structural extensions. In this paper we present both, the optimization mechanism as well as the simulation environment.
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Conference Paper
Year:
2014
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A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, J. A. Miller (eds.) Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2014), Savannah, GA, USA. pp. 1061-1072