Multi-agent reinforcement learning for electric vehicle decarbonized routing and scheduling
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Author(s)
Wang, Yi
Qiu, Dawei
He, Yinglong
Zhou, Quan
Strbac, Goran
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Low-carbon transitions require joint efforts from electricity grid and transport network, where electric vehicles (EVs) play a key role. Particularly, EVs can reduce the carbon emissions of transport networks through eco-routing while providing the carbon intensity service for power networks via vehicle-to-grid technique. Distinguishing from previous research that focused on EV routing and scheduling problems separately, this paper studies their coordinated effect with the objective of carbon emission reduction on both sides. To solve this problem, we propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning method that does not rely on prior knowledge of the system and can adapt to various uncertainties and dynamics. The proposed method learns a hierarchical structure for the mutually exclusive discrete routing and continuous scheduling decisions via a hybrid policy. Extensive case studies based on a virtual 7-node 10-edge transport and 15-bus power network as well as a coupled real-world central London transport and 33-bus power network are developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MARL method on reducing carbon emissions in transport network and providing carbon intensity service in power network.
Date Issued
2023-12-01
Date Acceptance
2023-10-09
Citation
Energy, 2023, 284
ISSN
0360-5442
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Energy
Volume
284
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544223027299
Subjects
Carbon emissions
Carbon intensity
COUPLED TRANSPORTATION
Electric vehicles
Energy & Fuels
MODEL
Multi-agent reinforcement learning
Physical Sciences
Routing and scheduling
Science & Technology
Technology
Thermodynamics
Transport and power networks
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
129335
Date Publish Online
2023-10-11