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By Zachary J. Lee, Sunash Sharma,
and Steven H. Low
Research Tools
for Smart Electric
Vehicle Charging
An introduction to the adaptive charging network research portal.
While researchers have explored
smart charging for more than a
decade, very few smart-charging
systems have been deployed in
practice, leaving a sizeable gap
between the research literature and
real world. In particular, we find that
research is often based on simplified
theoretical models. These simple
models make analysis tractable but
do not account for the complexities
of physical systems. Moreover,
researchers often lack the data
needed to evaluate the performance
of their algorithms on real
workloads or apply techniques like
machine learning. Even when
promising algorithms are developed,
they are rarely deployed
since field tests can be costly and
time-consuming.
To address these gaps and accelM
ILLIONS
OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVs) WILL
enter service in the next decade, generating
gigawatthours of additional energy
demand. Charging these EVs cleanly,
affordably, and without excessive stress on
the grid will require advances in charging system design,
hardware, monitoring, and control. Collectively, we refer to
these advances as smart charging.
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erate research in smart-charging systems, we have developed
the Adaptive Charging Network (ACN) Research Portal,
which is made up of three parts: a public data set of EV
charging sessions; an open source, data-driven simulation
environment; and a platform for field-testing algorithms on
real charging systems. In this article, we introduce these
tools and the research they have enabled.
ACNs
To enable smart charging at scale, we first needed a platform
that would allow us to take measurements from the
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