ACN-Sim: An Open-Source Simulator for Data-Driven Electric Vehicle Charging Research

ACN-Sim is a data-driven, open-source simulation environment designed to accelerate research in the field of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging. It fills the need in this community for a widely available, realistic simulation environment in which researchers can evaluate algorithms and test assump...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-01
Main Authors: Lee, Zachary J, Sharma, Sunash, Johansson, Daniel, Low, Steven H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Battery chargers
Electric vehicle charging
Electric vehicles
Simulation
Simulators
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Summary:ACN-Sim is a data-driven, open-source simulation environment designed to accelerate research in the field of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging. It fills the need in this community for a widely available, realistic simulation environment in which researchers can evaluate algorithms and test assumptions. ACN-Sim provides a modular, extensible architecture, which models the complexity of real charging systems, including battery charging behavior and unbalanced three-phase infrastructure. It also integrates with a broader ecosystem of research tools. These include ACN-Data, an open dataset of EV charging sessions, which provides realistic simulation scenarios and ACN-Live, a framework for field-testing charging algorithms. It also integrates with grid simulators like MATPOWER, PandaPower and OpenDSS, and OpenAI Gym for training reinforcement learning agents.
ISSN:2331-8422