Demand-side scheduling based on multi-agent deep actor-critic learning for smart grids

• Main Authors: Lee, Joash, Wang, Wenbo, Niyato, Dusit
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Reinforcement Learning; Smart Grid
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144903
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We consider the problem of demand-side energy management, where each household is equipped with a smart meter that is able to schedule home appliances online. The goal is to minimize the overall cost under a real-time pricing scheme. While previous works have introduced centralized approaches in whi...