Cooperative n-personal games in the coalitional economic control of a microgrid community

Abstract

Abstract—The deployment of microgrids connected to an electricity grid is increasing every day. These energy districts with their control system are the intelligent nodes of future electricity grids; therefore, strategies for managing these new systems must be developed and proposed. This paper presents a novel coalitional economic model predictive control strategy for managing a microgrid community. Because coalitional control considers the dynamic variation of coalitions of agents, a coop erative n-personal game with economic aspects occurs to decide which coalition to build, where the optimal control strategy to solve for each of these coalitions also takes place. Furthermore, an example proposes an economic criterion for using both the cooperative game and the control strategy for each coalition. Finally, some results on coalition formation are presented for the example mentioned above.