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Safe Pricing Mechanisms for Distributed Resource Allocation with Bandit Feedback
Spencer Hutchinson, Berkay Turan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In societal-scale infrastructures, such as electric grids or transportation networks, pricing mechanisms are often used as a way to shape users' demand in order to lower operating…
A Deployable Online Optimization Framework for EV Smart Charging with Real-World Test Cases
Nathaniel Tucker, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We present a customizable online optimization framework for real-time EV smart charging to be readily implemented at real large-scale charging facilities. Notably, due to real-worl…
Real-Time Electric Vehicle Smart Charging at Workplaces: A Real-World Case Study
Nathaniel Tucker, Gustavo Cezar, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We study a real-time smart charging algorithm for electric vehicles (EVs) at a workplace parking lot in order to minimize electricity cost from time-of-use electricity rates and de…
An Online Scheduling Algorithm for a Community Energy Storage System
Nathaniel Tucker, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In this paper, we consider a community energy storage (CES) system that is shared by various electricity consumers who want to charge and discharge the CES throughout a given time…
The Division of Assets in Multiagent Systems: A Case Study in Team Blotto Games
Keith Paarporn, Rahul Chandan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh +1
Multi-agent systems are designed to concurrently accomplish a diverse set of tasks at unprecedented scale. Here, the central problems faced by a system operator are to decide (i) h…
Mobility-Aware Smart Charging of Electric Bus Fleets
Ahmadreza Moradipari, Nathaniel Tucker, Tuo Zhang +2
We study the joint route assignment and charge scheduling problem of a transit system dispatcher operating a fleet of electric buses in order to maximize solar energy integration a…
Dynamic Pricing and Fleet Management for Electric Autonomous Mobility on Demand Systems
Berkay Turan, Ramtin Pedarsani, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
The proliferation of ride sharing systems is a major drive in the advancement of autonomous and electric vehicle technologies. This paper considers the joint routing, battery charg…
The Impact of Complex and Informed Adversarial Behavior in Graphical Coordination Games
Keith Paarporn, Brian Canty, Philip N. Brown +2
How does system-level information impact the ability of an adversary to degrade performance in a networked control system? How does the complexity of an adversary's strategy affect…
Constrained Thompson Sampling for Real-Time Electricity Pricing with Grid Reliability Constraints
Nathaniel Tucker, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We consider the problem of an aggregator attempting to learn customers' load flexibility models while implementing a load shaping program by means of broadcasting daily dispatch si…
Online Charge Scheduling for Electric Vehicles in Autonomous Mobility on Demand Fleets
Nathaniel Tucker, Berkay Turan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In this paper, we study an online charge scheduling strategy for fleets of autonomous-mobility-on-demand electric vechicles (AMoD EVs). We consider the case where vehicles complete…
Smart Charging Benefits in Autonomous Mobility on Demand Systems
Berkay Turan, Nathaniel Tucker, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In this paper, we study the potential benefits from smart charging for a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) providing autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) services. We first consider…
A risk-security tradeoff in graphical coordination games
Keith Paarporn, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Jason R. Marden
A system relying on the collective behavior of decision-makers can be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. How well can a system operator protect performance in the face…
An Online Admission Control Mechanism for Electric Vehicles at Public Parking Infrastructures
Nathaniel Tucker, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We study an online reservation system that allows electric vehicles (EVs) to park and charge at parking facilities equipped with electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSEs). We consi…
Pricing and Routing Mechanisms for Differentiated Services in an Electric Vehicle Public Charging Station Network
Ahmadreza Moradipari, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We consider a Charging Network Operator (CNO) that owns a network of Electric Vehicle (EV) public charging stations and wishes to offer a menu of differentiated service options for…
Mobility-Aware Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Load Models with Geographical Price Variations
Ahmadreza Moradipari, Nathaniel Tucker, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We study the traffic patterns as well as the charging patterns of a population of cost-minimizing EV owners traveling and charging within a transportation network equipped with fas…
On the interaction between Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand systems and the power network: models and coordination algorithms
Federico Rossi, Ramon Iglesias, Mahnoosh Alizadeh +1
We study the interaction between a fleet of electric, self-driving vehicles servicing on-demand transportation requests (referred to as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand, or AMoD, syst…
Optimal Pricing to Manage Electric Vehicles in Coupled Power and Transportation Networks
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Hoi-To Wai, Mainak Chowdhury +3
We study the system-level effects of the introduction of large populations of Electric Vehicles on the power and transportation networks. We assume that each EV owner solves a deci…
Scalable and Anonymous Modeling of Large Populations of Flexible Appliances
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Anna Scaglione, Andy Applebaum +2
To respond to volatility and congestion in the power grid, demand response (DR) mechanisms allow for shaping the load compared to a base load profile. When tapping on a large popul…
Capturing Aggregate Flexibility in Demand Response
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Anna Scaglione, Andrea Goldsmith +1
Flexibility in electric power consumption can be leveraged by Demand Response (DR) programs. The goal of this paper is to systematically capture the inherent aggregate flexibility…
Incentive Design for Direct Load Control Programs
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Yuanzhang Xiao, Anna Scaglione +1
We study the problem of optimal incentive design for voluntary participation of electricity customers in a Direct Load Scheduling (DLS) program, a new form of Direct Load Control (…
Clustering Consumption in Queues: A Scalable Model for Electric Vehicle Scheduling
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, George Kesidis, Anna Scaglione
In this paper, we introduce a scalable model for the aggregate electricity demand of a fleet of electric vehicles, which can provide the right balance between model simplicity and…
Real-Time Power Balancing via Decentralized Coordinated Home Energy Scheduling
Tsung-Hui Chang, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Anna Scaglione
It is anticipated that an uncoordinated operation of individual home energy management (HEM) systems in a neighborhood would have a rebound effect on the aggregate demand profile.…
Coordinated Home Energy Management for Real-Time Power Balancing
Tsung-Hui Chang, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Anna Scaglione
This paper proposes a coordinated home energy management system (HEMS) architecture where the distributed residential units cooperate with each other to achieve real-time power bal…