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WU Ziran,YU Tao,WU Yufeng,et al.Convexification of Charging and Discharging Model and Constraint Set Contraction Method for Accurate Electric Vehicle Aggregation[J].Automation of Electric Power Systems,2026,50(15):148-157.DOI: 10.7500/AEPS20250814007.
Convexification of Charging and Discharging Model and Constraint Set Contraction Method for Accurate Electric Vehicle Aggregation
Massive electric vehicle (EV) aggregation control technology is the key to achieving efficient participation of large-scale EVs in vehicle-to-grid (V2G). However
existing aggregation methods face two major challenges: first
the mutually exclusive characteristics of EV charging and discharging lead to non-convexity in the power feasible region; second
the power constraint boundaries of EVs with different user preferences exhibit significant differences. The former will result in overestimation of the adjustable boundaries of EVs
while the latter makes the evaluation of adjustable boundaries of EVs tend to be conservative. To address the above problems
this paper first achieves convex characterization of the non-convex feasible region by reconstructing the mathematical expression of the EV power feasible region
effectively solving the modeling problem of mutually exclusive charging-discharging constraints. Second
a constraint set contraction based aggregation algorithm is designed
which significantly improves the evaluation accuracy of adjustable boundaries under boundary differences by enhancing the inner approximation degrees of freedom of traditional aggregation algorithms. Case study analysis demonstrates that the proposed method effectively improves the computational efficiency and aggregation accuracy of massive EV scheduling.
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