Distributed Constrained Optimization Towards Effective Agent-Based Microgrid Energy Resource Management

Lezama, Fernando; Munoz de Cote, Enrique; Farinelli, Alessandro; Soares, João; Pinto, Tiago; Vale, Zita

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Lezama, Fernando

Munoz de Cote, Enrique

Farinelli, Alessandro

Soares, João

Pinto, Tiago

Vale, Zita

Abstract(s)

The current energy scenario requires actions towards the reduction of energy consumption and the use of renewable resources. In this context, a microgrid is a self-sustained network that can operate connected to the smart grid or in isolation. The long-term scheduling of on/off cycles of devices is a critical problem that has been commonly addressed by centralized approaches. In this work, we propose a novel agent-based method to solve the long-term scheduling problem as a distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) by modelling future system configurations rather than reacting to changes. Moreover, with respect to approaches based on decentralised reinforcement learning, we can directly encode system-wide hard constraints (such as for example the Kirchhoff law) which are not easy to represent in a factored representation of the problem. We compare different multi-agent DCOP algorithms showing that the proposed method can find optimal/near-optimal solutions for a specific case study.