What is MED?
Mobile Energy Disseminators (MEDs), use electric plug in connection or IPT in order to refill starving EVs. Buses can play the role of MEDs since they follow predefined scheduled routes and their paths cover a major part of a city, while trucks could have the role of energy chargers mainly on highways.
What is MED?
Mobile Energy Disseminators (MEDs), use electric plug in connection or IPT in order to refill starving EVs. Buses can play the role of MEDs since they follow predefined scheduled routes and their paths cover a major part of a city, while trucks could have the role of energy chargers mainly on highways.
What are we developing?
Based on Highway Env, we develop AwesomeChargingEnv to simulate the interaction between MED and Electrical Vehicles on a Highway Environment. With its robust and adaptable structure, AwesomeChargingEnv provides a versatile research platform, encouraging innovative explorations in the MED domain.
What's Next?
A Reinforcement learning Based MED Deployment Policy
Based on AwesomeChargingEnv, we develop a reinforcement learning algorithm control of each high way entrance,
which is controlling the release of the MED.
We want the agent to…
• Maximize the total mileage
• Minimize the total MED deployment
• Lower traffic congestion caused by MED
• Maintain the optimal State of Charge (SoC)
One More Thing…
We have successfully developed two physical simulation models to make the experiment more realistic!
The first is an energy consumption model built upon real-world data from the BYD K7 bus & Nissan Leaf,
offering a realistic simulation of power use dynamics.The second simulation model operates at a more granular level, based on the coil parameters in wireless
charging. This model takes into account misalignment between coils due to speed and angle differences,
leading to decreased charging efficiency.
