Reference
R. Carli, G. Cavone, T. Pippia, B. De Schutter, and M. Dotoli, "Robust optimal
control for demand side management of multi-carrier microgrids,"
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol.
19, no. 3, pp. 1338-1351, July 2022.
Abstract
This paper focuses on the control of microgrids where both gas and electricity
are provided to the final customer, i.e., multi-carrier microgrids. Hence,
these microgrids include thermal and electrical loads, renewable energy
sources, energy storage systems, heat pumps, and combined heat and power units.
The parameters characterizing the multi-carrier microgrid are subject to
several disturbances, such as fluctuations in the provision of renewable
energy, variability in the electrical and thermal demand, and uncertainties in
the electricity and gas pricing. With the aim of accounting for the data
uncertainties in the microgrid, we propose a Robust Model Predictive Control
(RMPC) approach whose goal is to minimize the total economical cost, while
satisfying comfort and energy requests of the final users. In the related
literature various RMPC approaches have been proposed, focusing either on
electrical or on thermal microgrids. Only a few contributions have addressed
the robust control of multi-carrier microgrids. Consequently, we propose an
innovative RMPC algorithm that employs on an uncertainty set-based method and
that can provide better performance compared with deterministic model
predictive controllers applied to multi-carrier microgrids. With the aim of
mitigating the conservativeness of the approach, we define suitable robustness
factors and we investigate the effects of such factors on the robustness of the
solution against variations of the uncertain parameters. We show the
effectiveness of the proposed RMPC approach by applying it to a realistic
residential multi-carrier microgrid and comparing the obtained results with the
ones of a baseline robust method.
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@article{CarCav:22-002,
author = {Carli, Raffaele and Cavone, Graziana and Pippia, Tom{\'{a}}s and
De Schutter, Bart and Dotoli, Mariagrazia},
title = {Robust Optimal Control for Demand Side Management of
Multi-Carrier Microgrids},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
volume = {19},
number = {3},
pages = {1338--1351},
month = jul,
year = {2022}
}