학술논문

Hierarchical User-Driven Trajectory Planning and Charging Scheduling of Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification IEEE Trans. Transp. Electrific. Transportation Electrification, IEEE Transactions on. 9(1):1736-1749 Mar, 2023
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Costs
Real-time systems
Optimization
Trajectory planning
Processor scheduling
Vehicle-to-grid
Roads
Autonomous electric vehicle (A-EV)
greedy algorithm
mobile edge computing (MEC)
trajectory planning
vehicle-to-grid (V2G)
Language
ISSN
2332-7782
2372-2088
Abstract
Autonomous electric vehicles (A-EVs), regarded as one of the innovations to accelerate transportation electrification, have sparked a flurry of interest in trajectory planning and charging scheduling. In this regard, this work employs mobile edge computing (MEC) to design a decentralized hierarchical algorithm for finding an optimal path to the nearby A-EV parking lots (PLs), selecting the best PL, and executing an optimal charging scheduling. The proposed model makes use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to assist edge servers in trajectory planning by surveying road traffic flow in real time. Furthermore, the target PLs are selected using a user-driven multiobjective problem to minimize the cost and waiting time of A-EVs. To tackle the complexity of the optimization problem, a greedy-based algorithm has been developed. Finally, charging/discharging power is scheduled using a local optimizer based on the PLs’ real-time loads, which minimizes the deviation of the charging/discharging power from the average load. The obtained results show that the proposed model can handle charging/discharging requests of on-move A-EVs and bring fiscal and nonfiscal benefits for A-EVs and the power grid, respectively. Moreover, it observed that user satisfaction in terms of traveling time and traveling distance is increased by using the edge-UAV model.