PhD Position F/M Modeling and Energy-Optimal Control Policies for Electromobility Networks

2022-05455 - PhD Position F/M Modeling and Energy-Optimal Control Policies for Electromobility Networks

Contract type : Fixed-term contract

Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent

Fonction : PhD Position

The Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes research center groups together almost 600 people in 22 research teams and 7 research support departments.

Staff is present on three campuses in Grenoble, in close collaboration with other research and higher education institutions (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, INRAE, …), but also with key economic players in the area.

Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes is active in the fields of high-performance computing, verification and embedded systems, modeling of the environment at multiple levels, and data science and artificial intelligence. The center is a top-level scientific institute with an extensive network of international collaborations in Europe and the rest of the world.

Contexte

As efforts for environmental protection become a major priority, Electric Vehicles (EVs) have started to emerge as one of the main components of sustainable traffic systems in cities worldwide . By 2030, however, EVs will account for 70% of all the vehicles sold, according to the EU roadmap (the Fit for 55 plan), which envisions a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars as early as 2035. Integration of the electrical vehicles (EV) with the city infrastructure (charging stations), and the electrical power supply network (power grid) possess unsolved critical problems that will become critical with the massive adoption of EV by the population.

Collaborations

It is envisioned a collaboration in this topic with Prof. Marta Gonzalez at the department of civil & Environmental Eng. UC-Berkeley, USA, to extend these models using real-time mobility data.

Scientific problem

One of the main potential barriers to fully exploit the e-flexibility potential available (by optimizing the infrastructure, and developing new EV services and business strategies), is the lack of tools and methods for forecasting EV fleets' e-flexibility in both time and space. This means being able to forecast when and where EVs are going to move, how their State of Charge (SoC) is evolving, and how they going to interact with the infrastructure and the power grid. Besides, combining EVs mobility models with grid power models will allow to use the EVs e-flexibility potential to minimize the energy curtailment of renewables and the better use of the existing power transmission network.

Work program. The PhD will include two main topics on modeling and control design.

- Electromobility Modeling.

- Control strategies for optimally exploiting the distributed EVS flexibility.

Supervisor : Carlos Canudas-de-Wit (DR-CNRS)

Application type: PhD. Gross salary: 2 135 Euros/M (CNRS PhD official salaries).

Start: any time. Duration : 36 months.

Employer : CNRS. Location : Grenoble, France (GIPSA-Lab and INRIA- RA)

Applications: send motivation letter and CV to carlos.canudas-de- wit@cnrs.fr

Request Background. Control Systems, Applied mathematics

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1st and 2nd year: 2 051 euros gross salary /month

3rd year: 2 158 euros gross salary / month

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