A team of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) researchers have won the ‘Best Innovative Applications Paper’ award at this year’s Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) conference.
The team had been working on electric vehicle (EV) smart charging mechanisms, which will become increasingly necessary as the rising numbers of EVs is set to place significant strain on our electricity distribution infrastructure.
The researchers’ work focused on how auction-like market mechanisms (wherein drivers place bids on electricity to indicate their willingness to pay, as well as individual constraints for charging), can be applied to schedule EV charging in an intelligent and efficient way.
Held this year in Singapore, AAMAS is the main international conference on intelligent agents and is also one of the most prestigious Artificial Intelligence (AI) conferences.
The team’s award-winning paper, entitled: ‘Bid2Charge: Market user interface design for electric vehicle charging’ can be found here.
The full article is available here.