用分层强化学习优化电动公交充电,兼顾省钱与安全。
Safe and Sustainable Electric Bus Charging Scheduling with Constrained Hierarchical DRL
- 分层强化学习框架,高阶分配充电桩,低阶决策充电功率。
- 在真实数据下降低运营成本,99.8%避免电池耗尽。
- 适合城市公交调度与绿色能源管理研究者。
将电动公交车(EBs)与光伏等可再生能源结合,是推动低碳公共交通的可行路径。然而,在光伏出力、电价波动、行程时间变化和充电设施有限等多重不确定性下,如何优化充电计划以降低成本并确保不发生电池耗尽,仍是难题。本文提出一种安全的分层深度强化学习(HDRL)框架,解决多源不确定下的电动公交充电调度问题。将问题建模为带约束的马尔可夫决策过程(CMDP),支持时序抽象决策。设计新型双演员-评论家多智能体近端策略优化拉格朗日算法(DAC-MAPPO-Lagrangian),在高层采用中心化PPO-Lagrangian学习安全充电分配策略,在底层采用基于CTDE范式的MAPPO-Lagrangian实现去中心化充电功率决策。基于真实世界数据的大量实验表明,该方法在成本最小化和安全合规性方面均优于现有基线,且收敛速度快。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The integration of Electric Buses (EBs) with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic (PV) panels is a promising approach to promote sustainable and low-carbon public transportation. However, optimizing EB charging schedules to minimize operational costs while ensuring safe operation without battery depletion remains challenging - especially under real-world conditions, where uncertainties in PV generation, dynamic electricity prices, variable travel times, and limited charging infrastructure must be accounted for. In this paper, we propose a safe Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning (HDRL) framework for solving the EB Charging Scheduling Problem (EBCSP) under multi-source uncertainties. We formulate the problem as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP) with options to enable temporally abstract decision-making. We develop a novel HDRL algorithm, namely Double Actor-Critic Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization Lagrangian (DAC-MAPPO-Lagrangian), which integrates Lagrangian relaxation into the Double Actor-Critic (DAC) framework. At the high level, we adopt a centralized PPO-Lagrangian algorithm to learn safe charger allocation policies. At the low level, we incorporate MAPPO-Lagrangian to learn decentralized charging power decisions under the Centralized Training and Decentralized Execution (CTDE) paradigm. Extensive experiments with real-world data demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms existing baselines in both cost minimization and safety compliance, while maintaining fast convergence speed.
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