Distributed Scheduling and Cooperative Control for Charging of Electric Vehicles at Highway Service Stations

The increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on highways calls for the installment of adequate charging infrastructure. Since charging infrastructure has limited capacity, EVs need to wait at a charging station to get charged, and their waiting times may differ significantly from one location to another. This paper aims at developing a strategy to coordinate the queues among the charging stations, with only local information about traffic flows and the status of EV charging stations along a bidirectional highway, so that excessively long waiting times can be avoided. Specifically, a distributed algorithm is presented to schedule EV flows into neighboring charging stations, so that EVs are all appropriately served along the highway and that all the charging resources are uniformly utilized. In addition, a distributed decision making policy is developed to influence the aggregate number of EVs entering any given service station, so that each EV makes an appropriate decision (i.e., whether or not it should enter the next charging station) by contributing positively to meeting the desired queue length at service stations and by considering its own battery constraint. Performance improvement of the proposed strategy is illustrated via one of the highways in the United States, namely the Florida Turnpike.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2661958
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/41297384
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2017, IEEE
• Authors:
  • Gusrialdi, Azwirman
  • Qu, Zhihua
  • Simaan, Marwan A
• Publication Date: 2017-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2713-2727
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1524-9050
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Control systems; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Highways; Network analysis (Planning); Service stations; Stochastic processes
• Identifier Terms: Florida Turnpike
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cooperative systems
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01649696
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TLIB, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 2017 9:28AM