Integrated Energy-Vehicle Control for V2G Demand Arbitration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing energy and delivery logistics in a V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) setting face challenges in optimizing energy distribution and delivery schedules across multiple bases and stores, leading to inefficiencies in power consumption and generation, and difficulties in satisfying simultaneous energy and delivery demands.
Innovation Solution
An integrated control device and method that coordinates power control devices, vehicle control devices, and energy management systems to predict and adjust power consumption and generation, and optimize delivery schedules by arbitrating between energy and mobility services, using a vehicle's traveling battery for energy management and transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If separate systems are used for managing energy and delivery logistics, then system simplicity is maintained, but optimization of energy distribution and delivery schedules is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate energy management and delivery logistics systems into a single integrated control device that simultaneously manages both functions. The control device receives delivery requests from multiple stores and power demands from multiple bases, then generates unified operation information that coordinates vehicle routes and power transmission schedules to optimize both energy distribution and delivery efficiency together.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device performs multiple functions including receiving delivery requests, receiving power demands, generating operation information for vehicle control, generating power transmission information for power control, and coordinating between energy and mobility services. This multi-functional approach allows a single system to handle both energy management and delivery logistics optimization.
2Productivity
If delivery schedules are optimized independently of energy demands, then delivery efficiency is improved, but power consumption and generation efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts delivery schedules and vehicle routes based on real-time power demands from bases and power availability. The control device generates operation information that modifies vehicle operations and power transmission schedules in response to changing energy conditions, ensuring both delivery efficiency and energy efficiency are optimized together rather than in isolation.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device receives power demands from multiple bases and uses this feedback information to adjust both delivery schedules and power transmission schedules. The system continuously monitors power consumption and generation conditions, then modifies vehicle routes and power transmission timing to achieve optimal coordination between delivery efficiency and energy efficiency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If energy management and delivery logistics are managed separately, then system operation simplicity is maintained, but ability to satisfy simultaneous energy and delivery demands deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
While integrating multiple functions, the system segments the control process into distinct information streams: delivery request information from stores, power demand information from bases, operation information for vehicle control devices, and power transmission information for power control devices. This segmented approach within an integrated framework allows the system to handle complex simultaneous demands while maintaining clear control pathways.
Data Source
AI summary
A control device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires (I) a first demand sent from an energy control device and including a demand amount and a demand time related to an energy demand, and (II) a second demand sent from a moving body control device which controls a moving body and including a demand amount, a demand time, and a demand position related to a demand of the moving body; and a processing unit which performs at least one of processing of deciding, on the basis of the first demand and the second demand acquired by the acquisition unit, a position and time at which the moving body moves or processing of determining whether it is possible to satisfy both demands of the first demand and the second demand.