Imperial College London
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DrVincenzoTrovato

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Honorary Research Fellow
 
 
 
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Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Tindemans:2015:10.1109/TCST.2014.2381163,
author = {Tindemans, SH and Trovato, V and Strbac, G},
doi = {10.1109/TCST.2014.2381163},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
pages = {1685--1700},
title = {Decentralized control of thermostatic loads for flexible demand response},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2014.2381163},
volume = {23},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), such as refrigerators, air-conditioners and space heaters, offer significant potential for short-term modulation of their aggregate power consumption. This ability can be used in principle to provide frequency response services, but controlling a multitude of devices to provide a measured collective response has proven to be challenging. Many controller implementations struggle to manage simultaneously the short-term response and the long-term payback, whereas others rely on a real-time command-and-control infrastructure to resolve this issue. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the control of TCLs that allows for accurate modulation of the aggregate power consumption of a large collection of appliances through stochastic control. By construction, the control scheme is well suited for decentralized implementation, and allows each appliance to enforce strict temperature limits. We also present a particular implementation that results in analytically tractable solutions both for the global response and for the device-level control actions. Computer simulations demonstrate the ability of the controller to modulate the power consumption of a population of heterogeneous appliances according to a reference power profile. Finally, envelope constraints are established for the collective demand response flexibility of a heterogeneous set of TCLs.
AU  - Tindemans,SH
AU  - Trovato,V
AU  - Strbac,G
DO  - 10.1109/TCST.2014.2381163
EP  - 1700
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 1063-6536
SP  - 1685
TI  - Decentralized control of thermostatic loads for flexible demand response
T2  - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2014.2381163
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000359541200003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7004818
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/21191
VL  - 23
ER  -
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