https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02278-7
Regular Article
Dynamics of load balancing with constraints
1 Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7–3–1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–8656, Japan
2 Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4–6–1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153–8505, Japan
3 CREST, JST, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
a e-mail: hideyuki@mist.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Received: 9 March 2014
Revised: 22 June 2014
Published online: 26 September 2014
In this paper, we consider a centralized strategy for scheduling charging patterns of electrical vehicles and other batteries in power grids. We formulate it as a load balancing problem with constraints, which tries to distribute the charging loads both spatially and temporally. We show that a variant of herding system can be applied to load balancing.
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