Controlling Power Supply Paths in VG Hub Networks Using a Hybrid Type Control Algorithm
Kaito Oeda, Yuusuke Kawakita, Akihito Taya, Yoshito Tobe, Shinji Yokogawa, Haruhisa Ichikawa · Ambient intelligence and smart environments · 2022
Although we have been developing a Virtual Grid (VG) system, where USB-PD-connected devices can alternatively provide and receive electrical power, we have not investigated the desirable power paths in a multiple-VG-Hub network. Our previous study shows that a power loss occurred inside the VG Hub. To minimize the total power loss, the number of used links needs to be minimized; the total power flow in the VG Hub network is minimized. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a cloud-based control system to execute the optimization with preceding local optimization. The experiment result has shown that the proposed hybrid type control algorithm can find the solution in 40% of the computational time on average compared with the algorithm that performs global optimization every time in the network where the solution can be found locally.