A distributed control architecture is presented that is intended to make a collection of heterogeneous loads appear to the grid operator as a nearly perfect battery. Local control is based on randomized decision rules advocated in prior research, and extended in this paper to any load with a discrete number of power states. Additional linear filtering at the load ensures that the input-output dynamics of the aggregate has a nearly flat input-output response: the behavior of an ideal, multi-GW battery system.
@article{arxiv.1610.00813,
title = {Demand Dispatch with Heterogeneous Intelligent Loads},
author = {Joel Mathias and Ana Bušić and Sean Meyn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00813},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Extended version of the paper that was published in Proc. 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2017. This version contains an extended appendix that provides details relevant to the simulations, including: (i) design of the optimal linear inverse filter in Appendix A2, and (ii) the creation of nominal transition matrices for TCLs using Monte Carlo in Appendix A3