Patent ID: 9594364
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B60L,G05B,H02J,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method for distributing, during a given time period, electricity flows in a system, the system including: at least one energy production element and one energy consumption element of electricity from the following elements: a monitoring unit configured to measure a state of charge of each storage element and electrical powers produced and consumed by each of the elements of the system, wherein the method comprises: a) defining physical system modelling parameters, wherein the physical system modelling parameters are physical quantities conditioning the energy consumption or production of the at least one energy production element and one energy consumption element, b) defining a model of the system, in the form of state representation using the physical system modelling parameters determined in step a), wherein the model of the system is defined with the following state representation: where x k and x k+1 are the states x of the system at times k and k+1, y k is an output parameter y of the system at the time k, u k is a control parameter at the time k, w k is a disturbance parameter w at the time k and A, B, G, C, D, F are constant matrices, c) defining optimisation parameters for solving an optimisation problem, and d) predefining the optimisation problem, over the given time period, for the distribution of the electricity flows of the system using the model defined in step b), wherein predefining the optimisation problem includes modelling a behaviour of the system for the given time period using the following equation: where x 0 is an initial state of the system, {tilde over (Y)}, Ũ and ŵ are power, control and disturbance parameters of the system respectively, for the given time period, expressed in matrix form, and Φ, ψ and ξ are constant matrices wherein the elements are dependent on the constant matrices A, B, G, C, D and F; and iterative steps at successive updating times of the given time period, including: e) measuring a state of charge of each electricity storage element, and electrical powers produced and consumed by each of the various elements of the system, f) updating a preview of the behaviour of the production and consumption elements of the system for another time period of a same duration as a duration of the given time period and starting at a considered updating time, g) defining a formulation of the optimisation problem for the another time period, wherein formulating the optimisation problem comprises at least a definition of an objective function f(Ũ) and updating of optimisation problem constraints, these constraints being expressed in the form of the following inequality: where Ũ is the control parameter for the given time period, A in a matrix dependent on the matrix ψ, and b in a matrix dependent on the matrices ψ and ξ, on minimum {tilde over (Y)} min and maximum values {tilde over (Y)} max of the output parameter {tilde over (Y)}, and on a maximum variation δŨ max of the control Ũ, h) solving the optimisation problem in step g) by using a solver to generate a solution, and i) applying electricity distribution controls in the system using the solution from step h), until a next iteration of the successive updating times of the given time period.