Lagrangian Relaxation for Continuous-Time Optimal Control of Coupled Hydrothermal Power Systems Including Storage Capacity and a Cascade of Hydropower Systems with Time Delays

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hammouda, Chiheb Ben, Rezvanova, Eliza, von Schwerin, Erik, Tempone, Raúl
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910405744394240
author Hammouda, Chiheb Ben
Rezvanova, Eliza
von Schwerin, Erik
Tempone, Raúl
author_facet Hammouda, Chiheb Ben
Rezvanova, Eliza
von Schwerin, Erik
Tempone, Raúl
contents This work considers a short-term, continuous time setting characterized by a coupled power supply system controlled exclusively by a single provider and comprising a cascade of hydropower systems (dams), fossil fuel power stations, and a storage capacity modeled by a single large battery. Cascaded hydropower generators introduce time-delay effects in the state dynamics, which are modeled with differential equations, making it impossible to use classical dynamic programming. We address this issue by introducing a novel Lagrangian relaxation technique over continuous-time constraints, constructing a nearly optimal policy efficiently. This approach yields a convex, nonsmooth optimization dual problem to recover the optimal Lagrangian multipliers, which is numerically solved using a limited memory bundle method. At each step of the dual optimization, we need to solve an optimization subproblem. Given the current values of the Lagrangian multipliers, the time delays are no longer active, and we can solve a corresponding nonlinear Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) for the optimization subproblem. The HJB PDE solver provides both the current value of the dual function and its subgradient, and is trivially parallelizable over the state space for each time step. To handle the infinite-dimensional nature of the Lagrange multipliers, we design an adaptive refinement strategy to control the duality gap. Furthermore, we use a penalization technique for the constructed admissible primal solution to smooth the controls while achieving a sufficiently small duality gap. Numerical results based on the Uruguayan power system demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed mathematical models and numerical approach.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2311_00794
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Lagrangian Relaxation for Continuous-Time Optimal Control of Coupled Hydrothermal Power Systems Including Storage Capacity and a Cascade of Hydropower Systems with Time Delays
Hammouda, Chiheb Ben
Rezvanova, Eliza
von Schwerin, Erik
Tempone, Raúl
Optimization and Control
49N90, 49L12, 49M29, 49N15, 93C43
This work considers a short-term, continuous time setting characterized by a coupled power supply system controlled exclusively by a single provider and comprising a cascade of hydropower systems (dams), fossil fuel power stations, and a storage capacity modeled by a single large battery. Cascaded hydropower generators introduce time-delay effects in the state dynamics, which are modeled with differential equations, making it impossible to use classical dynamic programming. We address this issue by introducing a novel Lagrangian relaxation technique over continuous-time constraints, constructing a nearly optimal policy efficiently. This approach yields a convex, nonsmooth optimization dual problem to recover the optimal Lagrangian multipliers, which is numerically solved using a limited memory bundle method. At each step of the dual optimization, we need to solve an optimization subproblem. Given the current values of the Lagrangian multipliers, the time delays are no longer active, and we can solve a corresponding nonlinear Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) for the optimization subproblem. The HJB PDE solver provides both the current value of the dual function and its subgradient, and is trivially parallelizable over the state space for each time step. To handle the infinite-dimensional nature of the Lagrange multipliers, we design an adaptive refinement strategy to control the duality gap. Furthermore, we use a penalization technique for the constructed admissible primal solution to smooth the controls while achieving a sufficiently small duality gap. Numerical results based on the Uruguayan power system demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed mathematical models and numerical approach.
title Lagrangian Relaxation for Continuous-Time Optimal Control of Coupled Hydrothermal Power Systems Including Storage Capacity and a Cascade of Hydropower Systems with Time Delays
topic Optimization and Control
49N90, 49L12, 49M29, 49N15, 93C43
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00794