Assignment of electrical vehicles to charging stations by a distributed approach

This paper presents a solution for the distributed dynamic assignment of a set of electric vehicles to a network of charging stations. The drivers of the vehicles send requests for the charging of their own vehicle; then they receive the location of the station to reach for the battery charging. The problem is solved using some distributed multi-agent assignment algorithms: the stations reach a consensus solving some local integer linear programming problems. Moreover, the convergence of the algorithms is proved and an example shows the efficiency of the proposed solution. © 2014 EUCA.