A practical approach for hybrid distributed MPC

Abstract This paper presents a framework to deal with distributed optimization problems composed by binary and continuous variables. Instead of using a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), the approach proposed here transforms the MIQP into a set of quadratic programming's (QP) that are easier to solve. In this way an instance of the controller related to each feasible combination of binary variables is created. The distributed controller performs an iterative process where the set of agents must agree on the value of continuous interconnection variables, while each agent must decide the values of local binary variables. During the iteration procedure the instances are rated according to a performance index and the instances with best performance are selected until the best one is obtained. The proposed methodology is applied to economic optimization of networked microgrids.

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