Robust-Index Method for Household Load Scheduling Considering Uncertainties of Customer Behavior

Author

Chengshan Wang ; Yue Zhou ; Jianzhong Wu ; Jidong Wang ; Yiqiang Zhang ; Dan Wang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Smart Grid of Minist. of Educ., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

Volume

6

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

42186

Firstpage

1806

Lastpage

1818

Abstract

Robust-index method is proposed to tackle the challenges of uncertainties caused by customer behavior in order to minimize comfort violation in household load scheduling. Robust indexes for different kinds of loads are developed and integrated into the load scheduling optimization problems in the form of additional constraints, and thus the obtained load schedules are able to reach the expected robust level. The robust-index method is simple in modeling, independent of historical data, and with low additional computational burden. Simulation results verified the validity of the proposed method and demonstrated their application in load scheduling.

Keywords

computational complexity; domestic appliances; energy management systems; optimisation; comfort violation minimization; computational burden; customer behavior; household load scheduling optimization problem; robust-index method; Indexes; Load modeling; Optimization; Robustness; Schedules; Uncertainty; Water heating; Demand response; home energy management; household load scheduling; robust-index method; smart home;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1949-3053

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSG.2015.2403411

Filename

7056496