Decentralized Control for Residential Energy Management of a Smart Users' Microgrid with Renewable Energy Exchange

Raffaele Carli; Mariagrazia Dotoli

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Raffaele Carli and Mariagrazia Dotoli, "Decentralized Control for Residential Energy Management of a Smart Users' Microgrid with Renewable Energy Exchange," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 641-656, May 2019. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911462

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Raffaele Carli and Mariagrazia Dotoli, "Decentralized Control for Residential Energy Management of a Smart Users' Microgrid with Renewable Energy Exchange," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 641-656, May 2019. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911462

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Decentralized Control for Residential Energy Management of a Smart Users' Microgrid with Renewable Energy Exchange

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911462

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Bari 70125, Italy

Funds: This work was supported by European Regional Development Fund in the "Apulian Technology Clusters SMARTPUGLIA 2020" Program

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Raffaele Carli (M'17) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering with honours in 2002 and the Ph.D. in electrical and information engineering in 2016, both from Politecnico di Bari, Italy.
From 2003 to 2004, he was a Reserve Officer with Italian Navy. From 2004 to 2012, he worked as System and Control Engineer and Technical Manager for a space and defense multinational company.
Dr. Carli is now a research fellow at Politecnico di Bari, and his research interests include the formalization, simulation, and implementation of decision and control systems, as well as modeling and optimization of complex systems. (raffaele.carli@poliba.it)

Mariagrazia Dotoli (M'96-SM'12) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering with honours in 1995 and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1999 from Politecnico di Bari (Italy).
She has been a visiting scholar at the Paris 6 University and at the Technical University of Denmark. She has been expert evaluator of the European Commission since the 6th Framework Programme. She is an Associate Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Bari, which she joined in 1999 as Assistant Professor. In 2014 she received the Italian national habilitation to Full Professor of automatic control. She has been the Vice Rector for research of Politecnico di Bari and a member elect of the Academic Senate. Her research interests include modeling, identification, management, control and diagnosis of discrete event systems, manufacturing systems, logistics systems, traffic networks.
Prof. Dotoli was co-chairman of the Training and Education Committee of ERUDIT, the European Commission network of excellence for fuzzy logic and uncertainty modeling in information technology, and was key node representative of EUNITE, the EUropean Network of excellence on Intelligent Technologies. She is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society e-Newsletter, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, of the IEEE Trans. on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology and a member of the editorial board of the journals: Mediterranean J. of Measurement and Control, Int. J. of Automation and Control, Int. J. of Systems Signal Control and Engineering Application, and Int. J. of Discrete Event Control Systems. She was the Program co-chair of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the Workshop and Tutorial chair of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the Special Session co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation and the chair of the National Committee of the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems. She was member of the International Program Committee of 50+ international conferences. She is author of 200+ publications, including 1 textbook (in Italian) and 50+ international journal papers. (mariagrazia.dotoli@poliba.it )
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Raffaele Carli, e-mail: raffaele.carli@poliba.it
Received Date: 2018-10-02
Revised Date: 2018-12-21
Accepted Date: 2019-02-08

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This paper presents a decentralized control strategy for the scheduling of electrical energy activities of a microgrid composed of smart homes connected to a distributor and exchanging renewable energy produced by individually owned distributed energy resources. The scheduling problem is stated and solved with the aim of reducing the overall energy supply from the grid, by allowing users to exchange the surplus renewable energy and by optimally planning users' controllable loads. We assume that each smart home can both buy/sell energy from/to the grid taking into account time-varying non-linear pricing signals. Simultaneously, smart homes cooperate and may buy/sell locally harvested renewable energy from/to other smart homes. The resulting optimization problem is formulated as a non-convex non-linear programming problem with a coupling of decision variables in the constraints. The proposed solution is based on a novel heuristic iterative decentralized scheme algorithm that suitably extends the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers to a non-convex and decentralized setting. We discuss the conditions that guarantee the convergence of the presented algorithm. Finally, the application of the proposed technique to a case study under several scenarios shows its effectiveness.
- Alternating direction method of multipliers,
- decentralized control,
- energy management,
- microgrid,
- non-convex optimization,
- renewable energy,
- residential energy management,
- smart homes

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