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Quadratic approximate dynamic programming for scheduling water resources: a case study

Systems and Control 2020-10-06 v1 Systems and Control Optimization and Control

Abstract

We address the problem of scheduling water resources in a power system via approximate dynamic programming.To this goal, we model a finite horizon economic dispatch problemwith convex stage cost and affine dynamics, and consider aquadratic approximation of the value functions. Evaluating theachieved policy entails solving a quadratic program at each timestep, while value function fitting can be cast as a semidefiniteprogram. We test our proposed algorithm on a simplified versionof the Uruguayan power system, achieving a four percent costreduction with respect to the myopic policy

Cite

@article{arxiv.2010.02122,
  title  = {Quadratic approximate dynamic programming for scheduling water resources: a case study},
  author = {Agustin Castellano and Camila Martínez and Pablo Monzón and Juan Andrés Bazerque and Andrés Ferragut and Fernando Paganini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02122},
  year   = {2020}
}
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