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Real-Time Neural Distributed Energy Resources Dispatch with Feasibility Guarantees

Systems and Control 2026-05-04 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

The growing penetration of renewable energy necessitates high-frequency real-time scheduling. While neural network-based surrogates enable computationally efficient scheduling, strictly enforcing nonconvex power flow constraints without external solvers remains a fundamental challenge. To bridge this gap, this letter proposes a solver-free neural dispatch framework with rigorous feasibility guarantees. A convex inner approximation of the DistFlow model is first derived via the convex envelope theorem. Building upon this approximation, a robust optimization-based affine policy is formulated to yield a theoretically certified interior-point mapping rule, which is then embedded within a bisection-based projection scheme to efficiently recover feasibility for infeasible NN outputs without any external solver. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method restores feasibility on the order of 10310^{-3} s while maintaining near-optimal performance.

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@article{arxiv.2605.00317,
  title  = {Real-Time Neural Distributed Energy Resources Dispatch with Feasibility Guarantees},
  author = {Jie Zhu and Yinliang Xu and Hongbin Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.00317},
  year   = {2026}
}
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