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Abstract— Due to the wide usage of fossil fuels, global warming engine vehicles. After a time period of travelling, the PHEVs
has become a major threat in recent years. Hence, Plug-in equipped with batteries should be charged for a better
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) usage has become an performance. When PHEVs are plug-in to the power grid
alternative solution due to the depletion of resources and the through charging equipment there is a possibility of either
increasing price of fossil fuels. In this work, the driving pattern of absorbing energy to charge the battery or by adopting vehicle-
the vehicles is calculated using probability density function. A
to-grid (V2G) technology, the energy stored in the battery of
Fuzzy Logic based method is used to correlate the arrival and
departure time of the vehicle with the daily mileage as they are the vehicle can be supplied to the grid whenever needed.
independent in nature. The total operating cost minimization is In all-electric mode, the PHEVs can be designed to travel
the main objective of the work by adopting controlled charging either only at low speeds or it can be extended to drive at all
strategy. The controlled charging strategy comprises of three speeds.
different modes: charging, discharging and idle mode. Thus, the As per the prognostication of International Energy Agency
economic scheduling of PHEVs using the controlled charging (IEA), the PHEV/passenger Electric Vehicles (EVs) sales will
strategy is implemented considering two different test cases hike from 2020 and 100 million of EV/PHEV will be sold per
namely residential and commercial area, each with a parking lot year by 2050 in [2]. PHEV owners tend to charge their
for charging the vehicles. Finally, the scheduling of PHEV is
vehicles to maximum state of charge (SOC) during off-peak
performed using MATLAB and the results of the two different
cases were analyzed under different charging levels and three All hours because of low electricity price. During peak hours
Electric Range (AER)- 30,40 and 60 ranges of PHEVs. when the electricity cost is high, the PHEV owners can sell the
power to the grid in [3]. By incorporating PHEVs as mobile
Keywords— all electric range (AER), plug-in hybrid electric energy storage resources, the power grid can be transformed
vehicle (PHEV), fuzzy logic, probability density function, controlled into an efficient system.
charging. The charging load profile developed to study the effects of
PHEV on electricity demand profile by using the data
I. INTRODUCTION collected from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
A potential global warming has been created around the in [4]. An optimal charging/discharging control mode of
globe with the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases PHEV was implemented to reduce its impact on power system
and the persistence of atmospheric carbon emission. The and thus reducing the operating cost of the system as in [5]. A
transportation sector recently revealed that nearly 25% of smart charging framework is modeled in [6] and different
carbon dioxide is emitted due to 55% of oil consumption by driving patterns in [7] are used to minimize the daily cost and
the humans as in [1]. In order to reduce the emission from the performance comparison using fast and slow charging of
transportation sector several initiatives are being taken by PHEV is demonstrated. To fulfill the preference of the vehicle
researchers worldwide. owner and to provide profit to the parking operator [8]
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) has become an presents an energy management system. A UC-PHEV
alternative solution to tackle this situation. It uses rechargeable structure is introduced to reduce the total operating cost using
batteries or other energy storage device for recharging by the Genetic algorithm-LR procedure in [9] but it requires time-
plugging into an external electric source. The advantages of consuming calculation and tedious algorithm. Depending on
PHEVs are their lesser operating cost, high energy efficiency discrete optimization criteria in [10]-[11], the effects of PHEV
and less emission compared to the traditional combustion on the power system is analyzed.
* Corresponding author .
where = 9.97 ( ),
= 16 ( ), = 2.2
The pdf of arrival time of the PHEVs also follows a
normal distribution function which is given as:
( ) /
(t)= ,0<t<24 (2)
√
where = 17.01 ( ),
= 10 ( ), = 3.2
For describing the distribution of daily mileage of the Fig. 2. Probability distribution curve of commercial area
vehicle a lognormal distribution function is used which can be
The mobility pattern of customers in the commercial area
expressed as follows:
( ) /
is shown in Fig. 2, which is different from that of residential
(t)= ,d>0 (3) pattern because the customers in commercial area follow a
√
pattern with morning-arrival and evening-departure.
where = 3.2 , = 0.9
C. Fuzzy Model of PHEV
In (1) and (2), (R) denotes the residential area and (C)
denotes the commercial area. The and values given in [12] The probability distribution functions of the arrival and
provides efficient result hence these values are chosen for the departure time of the PHEV are found to be two independent
analysis. events by analyzing the NHTS data. But while considering the
The probability distribution curve of the residential and the daily mileage travelled, it is dependent on the arrival and
commercial area is shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 2, respectively. departure time. Hence, the pdf of daily mileage travelled can
be different for different combination of the arrival time and
the departure time.
2018 National Power Engineering Conference (NPEC)
By using Fuzzy Logic concept the three fundamentals of The fuzzy membership function formed based on the
driving pattern can be handled certainly. To generate the different fuzzy rules for both residential and commercial area
driving pattern of the PHEVs a fuzzy logic model is used. The is indicated in Fig.3 and Fig. 4. The departure and the arrival
SOC of the vehicle is differentiated into five distinct stages. time are defined as input variables and their membership
During each time slot it can vary from one stage to another functions are specified as very early (VE), little early (LE),
after the charging is done. Different ranges of daily mileage normal (N), little late (LL), and very late (VL). The daily
can be converted into different stages of SOC. mileage is defined as output variable and its membership
The membership function of the departure, arrival time and functions are illustrated as small (S), small-medium (SM),
the daily mileage travelled is classified into various regions. medium (M), medium-large (ML) and large (L). The pdf is
The triangular membership function along with the advantage used to generate the parameters of the maximum, minimum
of simplicity is the most prevalent method formed using limit and the mean value of each variable.
straight line. By applying proper fuzzy rules their relationship The pdf based fuzzy rules are applied for mapping from
can be defined. The fuzzy membership function of the the input space to the output space in the stochastic fuzzy
residential is shown in Fig.3 and commercial area is exhibited model. A Probability matrix ‘P’ is defined as follows:
in the Fig. 4.
, , , , ,
, , , , ,
P= , , , , ,
, , , , ,
, , , , ,
∀ ∈ , , , , ] (4)
The corresponding entry of P is a row vector. It is a
probability distribution over the membership functions of
output variable based on a combination of membership
function of the two input variables.
The scheduling of PHEV is represented as a block diagram
in Fig. 5,
STAGE-1
(Arrival and STAGE-2 STAGE-3
Departure time (Fuzzy Model) (Energy
Probability) Equation)
Fig. 3. Fuzzy membership function of residential area
STAGE-4
(Scheduling
for a day)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors extend their sincere thanks to the management
of their respective college for their constant encouragement
and flexibility in doing this research work and the financial
support from Science and Engineering Research Board
(SERB), India under Early Career Research (ECR) Scheme.
(F.No. ECR/2017/000827) is gratefully acknowledged.
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