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Characterization and Analysis of Flexible Energy Prosumers using Resource Timed Automata

Translated title

Karakterisering og Analyse af Fleksible Energi Prosumers ved brug af Resurse Automater

Term

4. term

Education

Publication year

2022

Submitted on

Pages

21

Abstract

We address the problem of modeling and analyzing the flexible behavior of Pro- sumer systems for the purpose of balanc- ing production and consumption of en- ergy in, for example, an energy grid. We introduce the notion of Resource Timed Automata (RTA) and show how pro- sumers can be modeled using these au- tomata. Furthermore, we show that ag- geregation of prosumers in a smart elec- tricity grid can be modeled as a special kind of parallel composition of such au- tomata, and the balancing problem can be formalized as reachability problems on an observer automaton. Finally, we illus- trate how these reachability problems can be solved using established methods from model checking, and discuss why we sus- pect these methods will scale well in prac- tice for this type of problem.